Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The book hasn't even started but I'm already highlighting things lol

I’VE READ MANY more books than you.

Thats a lie.

Basically, I’m allergic to the world.

Oop-

I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years.

Oh nvm she totally read more books than me

We are, both of us, cake people, not frosting people.

HOW!?!?!?!?

Instead I wish for something more likely than a cure. Something less likely to make us both sad. “World peace,” I say.

Girlie did not just say word peace was more likely to happen then a cure be found. HAVE YOU SEEN MY MATH CLASS!?!?!?!?!?

“That was not persuasion,” I say. “That was cheating.” “Same same,” she says,

HAHAHAHAH

“Flowers for Algernon again?” she asks. “Doesn’t that book always make you cry?” “One day it won’t,” I say. “I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.”

That's actually a great mindset to have.

Spoiler alert: Algernon is a mouse. The mouse dies.

GIRLIE DID NOT- NOW I'M CRYING...

It’s happening again.

Woah woah woah woah WOAH... WHAT!?!?!?!?!

DUDE THIS IS SAD

Then I see him. He’s tall, lean, and wearing all black:

Oh please let him not be emo

He grins at me and his face is no longer stark, no longer severe. I try to smile back, but I’m so flustered that I frown at him instead.

Because like how does that work? I just don't understand how you can accidentally frown at someone.

OLLY’S SCHEDULE Unpredictable.

Oooooooooooooo

The more I watch, the more I want to know.

Hmmmmm

“Is it the new neighbors?”

Ooooooooooo

“My mom sent a Bundt.”

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

“Is your daughter home?” Olly asks quite loudly, before she can close the door. “We’re hoping she could show us around.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

Instead, I head upstairs imagining what a Bundt cake tastes like.

...

LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.

REAL

I gasp. Did the cake just commit suicide?

I'm highlighting this because it's gonna sound so funny to yall lollll

The Bundt is sitting on the sill, Band-Aids and bandages covering half its body.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

SORRY ABOUT THE OTHER NIGHT.

NO HE THINKS ITS HIS FAULT NAURRRRRRRRR

Olly: we’re gonna be friends

OMGGGGG AHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE HIM SMMMMMMM

Is your head oddly shaped?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Why do you only ever wear black? Related question: Are you aware that clothing comes in other colors? I have suggestions if you need them.

AHAHAHAHAHAAA

Madeline: What have you got against capital letters and proper punctuation?

It is kinda giving me the ick thooo....

Madeline: You think I’m pretty? Olly: for a fairytale ghost spy princess? definitely

OMLLLLLLLLLL

Madeline: Sheesh. The Little Prince. Uxorious. Aquamarine. I don’t have any vices. My mom.

Highlighting this because why not

Olly: you’ve got your secrets. i’ve got mine

NAURRRR AND THEY WERE DOING SO GOOD UGHHHH

Madeline: But he overcomes it and eventually realizes that character matters more than class! He’s a man open to learning life’s lessons! Also, he’s completely gorgeous and noble and dark and brooding and poetic. Did I mention gorgeous? Also, he loves Elizabeth beyond all reason.

WE STAN DARCY

Madeline: What color are your eyes? Olly: blue Madeline: Be more specific, please. Olly: jesus. girls. ocean blue Madeline: Atlantic or Pacific? Olly: atlantic. What color are yours? Madeline: Chocolate brown. Olly: more specific please Madeline: 75% cacao butter dark chocolate brown.

HAHAHAHAHA OML I LOVE THIS BOOK SMMMMM

Madeline: Form of poetry. Olly: that assumes that I have one Madeline: You’re not a heathen. Olly: limericks Madeline: You are a heathen. I’m going to pretend you didn’t say that. Olly: what’s wrong with a good limerick? Madeline: “Good limerick” is a contradiction in terms. Olly: what’s your favorite? Madeline: Haiku. Olly: haikus are awful. they’re just less fun limericks Madeline: You’ve been downgraded from heathen to heretic. Olly: noted

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Olly: i’m meaner now. bigger too Madeline: You don’t seem mean. Olly: you don’t know me that well yet

Ummmmm.......

But how will he eat all that scrumptious food with his helmet on?”

Oop-

I look back at my astronaut. It’d never occurred to me that he’d want to eat the food.

...

Who actually slaps their knee while laughing?

Don't ask me!

He’s the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.

*cue pterodactyl screech*

By the time you read this we will have met. It will have been perfect.

AHSFFGDXJZRSTYVJJBSEOOPGDSDB

“It’s no joke,” he says with mock seriousness. “The ocean will kill you.” He winks at me. “It turns out that Mother Nature is a lousy mom.”

Omlll

“I can do a one-armed handstand.”

WHY DIDN'T HE MENTION THIS BEFORE!?!?!?!?!?!?

I wander the house aimlessly, seeing Olly everywhere.

BACK OFF HE'S MINE

Does he want some company, refuge from his family?

HE PROBABLY DOES

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL Spoiler alert: Beware the Queen of Hearts. She’ll have your head.

REAL

THERE’S NO E-MAIL from Olly.

NAURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

“Because of what we talked about. I like him, Carla. A lot. Too much.”

But he's mine...

“He is pretty cute, right?” I giggle. “Honey, I didn’t think they made them like that anymore!”

Oml I love Carla smmm!!

Madeline: You can find the meaning of life in a book. Olly: life has meaning?

HE DID NOT-

Madeline: Let’s agree to just be friends, ok? Olly: ok

YES HE'S FINALLY MINE!!!!

I tell myself there’s no harm in lying to my mom.

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