Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2)

by Ali Hazelwood

For the most part, having them in my life has been my one true joy,

She’s been dearly missed ever since.)

feel my soul crawl outside my body to astral project itself into the burning flames of hell out of pure, sheer embarrassment.

He’s amused. He finds me funny.

“Take a deep breath.” “I know. I am. Taking deep breaths, that is.”

When I never wanted to stop talking, not even for a second.

I’m not alone in my . . . magical thinking—nice

“I think that there are lots of kinds of love,”

“Maybe yours with Oscar was closer to the sibling variety than to anything resembling a passionate affair between soul mates?

you’re still in touch. You know that you still love each other as friends,

I wonder if maybe you were more devastated at the idea of losing your safe harbor—the

person who was there for you since you were kids and promised to be there for you forever—than at the idea of losing Oscar himself.

I’m not feeling too nervous, or too much weirder than usual.

Mostly, I’m wondering whether he likes what he sees, which is a bit different.

It’s just, I think I like you a lot? More than I can remember liking anyone?

we seem to be a little stuck in this here and this now. Standing in front of each other. Rooted to the ground.

“Did I . . . Did I misunderstand?”

“You didn’t.”

I wanted to be with you.

I have zero self-control when it comes to her,

“She falls asleep and I watch her and think, This is like nothing else. Scary, almost.

I just want him to hurt. To hurt as much as he hurt me.

I want to text him. I want to call him.

“And I’ve been scared, scared like never before, that I’d hurt you.”

just doesn’t seem like something he would do if he didn’t care about you.”

That feeling of being right there, on the brink of something.

Erik now knows that you occasionally display an appalling lack of conflict-resolution initiative.”

if he does decide that he doesn’t want you in his life it’s going to hurt, and that you’re tempted to preemptively pull back to protect yourself.

if you don’t at least give him a chance to choose you, you’ll lose him for sure.”

go for it, just go for it, ask for what you want, be brave

the feelings it carried. Of possibilities. Of maybe.

This is my new happy place, Erik

“So if you decided that you don’t mind the fact that sometimes I can be a total lunatic, and if you want to give me a call

“I missed you,”

“I only knew you for twenty-four hours, but I’ve never missed anyone so much.”

the way he made me feel at once powerful and powerless.

“Three weeks, and I could only think of you.”

tells me how beautiful I am, how he wants to feel all of me,

I never, ever want this moment to end.