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Things were more special when they were rare.
Everything she did was to keep me watching. I controlled her.
She wasn’t working me like other girls tried to do. What she didn’t say was just as interesting as what she did. Her breathlessness, her small voice, the flirtation that slipped out in her careful words as if she wanted something but had no clue how to be bold. I liked her innocence, but I could feel her desire to shuck it. So perfect.
and you’ll go take another shower. Your third one today. It washes off the self-hate for a little while, doesn’t it?”
Fuck him. I didn’t need all that stuff, and if that’s what interested Kai—appearances—then I was better off. I’d be more than all of them.
“You think I’m not used to the way people like that look at me? Men thinking if they prettied me up they’d be doing me some kind of favor, and women laughing behind their hands. It’s been that way my whole life. I don’t give a shit what they see when they look at me. Your world is empty, and it can teach me nothing.”
“When we’re young, we are who we are out of necessity—we are who we’re taught to be. With freedom, though, comes the liberty to broaden our horizons. When we only have ourselves to answer to,”
“Chase me, steal me, and fuck me. Hide me, I don’t care.”
“Hold my eyes,” he said softly. “Just keep looking at me.” I did. I just dived and surrendered and fell.
His smell, his skin, his taste . . . in this moment, I was new.
People will think what they want to think, not because they believe they are right, but because it’s in their nature to maintain that they are. By defending yourself, you feed the appetite for drama. By not, you’ve ended the conversation. You. Not them.
The less you know, the more you fear, so go learn more.
I was here, and fuck ’em.
Territorial is fine when it’s in the bedroom. It’s not fine when it keeps someone you’re supposed to love from living a life.
The body’s need to waste one-third of its lifespan unconscious was an error of evolution. Look how much I could’ve gotten done.
