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Boyfriend - noun - some dude who’s managed to convince his girl he’s worth more than just his dick Chiefly ‘Prescott High’ slang: a possessive term that denotes that said boy belongs to a girl with his whole body, heart, and soul; a clear and daring upgrade from fuckboy; used sparingly, if at all
“Regardless, one day you’ll let me fuck you the way I want to fuck you,” Widow continues, drawing his hand back and then using his thumb to tease my sensitive lips. “Let me date you the way I want to date you.” Another pause, and he leans in, putting his mouth near my ear. I know without knowing that he’s smirking at Ash over my shoulder. “Marry you the way I want to marry you. I’m a patient man, Scarlett. You rile me up, so maybe you don’t believe it, but it’s true. I waited behind bars for five years.”
“I’ll do anything for Scarlett,” Widow says, playing with his baseball bat. He turns the end of it in the mud with a single hand. “Die for her …” He looks up. “Kill for her. I will bleed, bury, dig, scrape, drive, and suffer even your presence.”
Ash hops the hood—to show off, I guess—and then climbs into the passenger seat. Before I even really register what’s happening, Widow and his baseball bat are in the back seat. Right. Southside Avengers assemble, I guess.
“What-ifs and could haves are a closed track,” I whisper. “A road that leads to nowhere. Abso-fucking-lutely nowhere. Life is supposed to be, well, not to sound cliché or anything, but an open highway. Open road. Endless ribbons of possibility. A road trip.”
Reality, the one nightmare you can’t wake up from, am I right?
