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“Exactly. Hey, does this, you and me, mean I technically won the bet? Because you did go on a date with me too, you know. I remember.”
Anthony clears his throat and extends a hand to Robin. “Anthony Winter.”
“You talk as if you’ll become paralyzed. You won’t. There are ways to live—”
Exactly
“I won’t, then. Just don’t talk disparagingly about yourself to me, okay? I happen to really like you, and no one talks bad to you in front of me. Not even you.”
🥺🥺
My heart aches. I wish he would let me tell him that, too. That he’s worth staying with. Fighting for.
🥺😭
not always happy.” “I know,” he says. “But you’re always genuine.” “An open book, or so I’ve been told.” “You let people see you, Summer. That’s strength.”
“You should let people see you too,” I murmur. “Because you’re amazing.”
🥹
“One night, the stars went out for me, and they’ll never return. The night sky has gone dark.”
😩🥺😭
“I’m thankful I saw you, at any rate,” he murmurs. “Before it all goes black.”
😭😭😭😭😭
The soft-spoken words grate. I don’t want to be someone she’s sorry for. I want to be someone she can trust, someone she can turn to. A man she can see a future with.
But you are! She see’s a future with you!!🥺
“It might be easier for you if we end this now.”
No tf it won’t
“I can’t possibly think that? So you’ll never get tired of me not being able to navigate the house we live in? Never resentful that I can’t take you places? That I’ll slow you down, hinder your trips, stand in the way of all those dreams of yours. Your bucket list, Summer. I won’t be able to tell you if your haircut looks good, let alone hike with you to Machu Picchu.”
😭
“Because you’re stronger than this, Anthony. You’re the strongest person I’ve met.”
against her leg, looking between us. “I don’t. You’re right. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to be here, because I do, Anthony.”
“It’s my choice too,” she says. “It’s my choice who I want in my life. And I want you.”
🫠
“Stop telling me what I want! Damn it, Anthony. Would you rather your pride kept you company at night than me?”
Tell him!!
“I disagree with a lot of the things you’ve said today,” she says shakily. “Your life isn’t over, and I won’t let you throw the rest of it away. And as for me? Don’t you dare make decisions for me about what I can and can’t handle, or decide what I do or do not want.”
😠 tell him
I’ve never heard her use steel in her voice before when speaking to him.
Yeah you really pissed my girl off
There had been truth in his words, in the way he looked at himself. But it’s not a truth I can accept.
“What do you do,” I whisper to him, “when the person you love refuses to love himself?”
🥺😭
“It’s only been two days,” Anthony says, “but it feels like forever.”
“I don’t know,” he says, “if I can be the man you deserve. If I can fight this the way you think I can. It’s very likely that I won’t be as good of a… a boyfriend to you as someone else would. Someone who won’t have my limitations. But by God, Summer, I’m going to try.”
🥹
“There’s something worth fighting for now.”
🥺
He runs featherlight fingers up my bare arms. “I’m so grateful,” he says, “that I’ll have the memory of your beauty, for however long I get to keep it.”
In the weeks since we first did this, Anthony and I have explored plenty. There have been fast times. Hard times. Ones where we both laughed afterwards at how loud it had gotten, or where my skin smarted from the force.
“You’re part of the company,” he tells me. “Hell, you and I were the ones who started it. Of course you’ll still be a part of it, if you want to. Perhaps your role will have to change, but there’s technology for that, right? I don’t know shit about what it’s like to live blind.”
🥹
His name is Jerome.”
“The people who care about you won’t judge, and the people who do? You don’t care about them.”
That’s when I spot him.
😫
was counting days,” I admit. “I was counting hours.” He releases me slowly,
I unfold the paper. In his sharp-edged handwriting is a short list. The first line is already struck. Tell the woman I love how I feel.
“I got ahead of myself with crossing the first one off,”
“I love you, Summer. For so many reasons. For who you are. For your goodness and sweetness and smiles. For your optimism. But also for your bad days, and your insecurities, and when you lost your temper at that delivery guy one time.”
“Yes, especially that. I love that you find a silver lining everywhere, even when it’s infuriating as hell. I love that you don’t need me. You want me. There’s a difference.
“I can’t promise I’ll be the man you deserve every day, all the time. One day I won’t see anymore, and that terrifies me, Summer. I won’t always handle that well. But I’m going to try. I’m going to live this life to the best of my ability. You were the one to tell me I’m not dying, that I need to stop acting like I am. You were right. Because even blind, I’ll have two hands to hold you with, and a mouth to kiss you with, and fingers to touch you, and that’s enough. It’ll always be enough.”
😭😭😭😭😩
“We are. There is one sport, though, that we’re particularly good at,” he says, eyes glittering. “A team sport.” I grin at him. “Oh, we’re Olympic gold medalists.”
“They wouldn’t even let us compete,” he says, nipping at my bottom lip. “It would be unfair to all the other contestants.”
