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“I will always choose you.”
For years I would wonder if taking them was the reason he felt like he could just… take me.
He tried. Which meant Marcel was not a changed man. The doorknob twisted four more times.
and know I was home if it was locked. This was how I had been getting away with sleeping at Caprice’s every night.
Uh oh!
Caprice was his favorite student, and Princess was his least.
BIG BUTTERSCOTCH💪🏾👊🏾
He’s putting 2 & 2 together
When you’re fed-up and full of rage, anything is possible.
Ummmmm
She is/was.
“You’re so… good at it. If I wasn’t with you last night, I wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at you now.”
You’re not to blame.
🎯
Protected her before he realized she needed protecting.
HELLO
Some sick ass piece of shit ripped her innocence out of her little eight-year-old hands and to this day, didn’t have enough shame to leave her ass alone even now.
Oh no…
You are not gross or damaged or dirty, so get that shit out of your head,
open your eyes to the fact that I’m here… and I survived.
but it was the first time it mattered this much.
The reality of just how much she trusted me wasn’t lost on me. For her to let me touch her like this—despite everything—her faith in me must’ve run deep, and it must've been strong.
Old hag!
“It wasn’t hard to guess, baby.” She kept going, “You’re my son—I know you. You’re too kind, you’re too wholesome, you’re too smart to have tried something like that for no damn reason.
🎯
“I would’ve helped her if you had just let me know!”
I realize there’s a little girl across the street from my house that really needs my help, and because of my reckless ass son, I can’t call the cops on the people who are hurting her.”
I wanted to help her, Shaun! I wanted to help that poor baby so much.”
When you get older, you surely can. I have a mother and I have a sister, and I chose them when I was sixteen.
with four broken ribs, a concussion, and rumors that he might never play again.
And did!
Her savior
Ms. Kelly nodded, raising a single hand and striking the back of it across Gracie’s face. Hard. Gracie cradled her cheek because no doubt getting backhanded like that hurt.
From rags to riches! ✨
She found family and appreciation.
❤️
🙌🏾
I went on to do my two-year residency in psychiatry, following in my adoptive mother’s footsteps.
My job at FEEL was to read data, analyze bloodwork, and determine appropriate drug therapies for our patients who needed more than just talk.
I was just a very shy person. They mistook my shyness for arrogance, and I didn’t care enough to beg for entry into their little workplace clique.
It’s because he’s BLACK! Yall can say it, don’t put racism on him.
Lmao she’s heated
Stand on it Logan👏🏾
Poor baby
This is how Caprice will reconnect with Shaun.
Hello!
We were best friends, but she didn’t know about my time in Parramore.
Micah was a sports medicine doctor—I went to med school with him and introduced the happy couple,
“Holy shit, you and the boat have the same name! That’s insaaaaane. What are the odds?”
But the most important person in my life at the time had fucking cancer.
