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Lacie Barone,
NOOOOOOOO
I knew Jere would never look at another girl.
r u sure about that
YOU ARE THE MILK TO MY SHAKE, forever and ever. Love, J.
this is the most cringe thing i’ve ever seen 🤮
“Lacie kept following me around all week. She wouldn’t leave me alone. I swear to you, I didn’t want to hook up with her. It just happened.” His voice trailed off.
SHUT THE FUCK UP IT DOESNT JUST HAPPEN
Before I knew it, my hand was striking his face. I slapped him as hard as I could. I wasn’t even thinking, I was just doing. My hand left a splotchy red imprint on his right cheek.
THAT BOY IS CORRUPT 👏🏻💥
“Can you come over and hang out with me?” he asked, blowing his nose. “And can you bring more Kleenex? And orange juice?” I bit my lip to keep from saying, You have allergies, not swine flu.
EXACTLY HE IS A BABY
But now I knew the truth. He bought me that stupid cheap bracelet because he felt guilty. And I was so desperate to make up, I hadn’t seen it.
YUUUUUUUP
When I was younger, I used to picture my first time with Conrad. It wasn’t that I was still waiting for him.
🤨🤨🤨
It was all so familiar. We had been here before, just like this, only two Christmases ago.
I REMEMBER IT ALL TOO WELL
He was a part of my DNA. I had brown hair and I had freckles and I would always have Conrad in my heart.
But then he got down on one knee, right in front of me. Very softly, he said, “You could marry me.”
GETTING MARRIED WILL NOT DO ANYTHING TO PROVE YOUR TRUST
He reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out a ring. A silver ring with a little diamond in the center. “This would just be for starters, until I could afford to pay for a ring myself—with my money, not my dad’s.”
and this tiny ass ring 🤦🏻♀️
He asked, “Isabel Conklin, will you marry me?” in as serious a voice as I’d ever heard him use. “Yes, I’ll marry you,” I said.
🤮🤮🤮
I held up my left hand with a flourish. She looked at it, confused. Then her eyes focused on my ring finger.
yeah probably because it’s so small
And the carrot cake. We could just do a regular two-layer, I guess.
BELLY, CACAO IS THE BEAN!
“Basically, when it’s your turn, you say something like, ‘I never…’ ”—Anika looked around the circle—“hooked up with someone related to me.”
i never heard this game be called something other than never have i ever
I’d stopped calling him Daddy in middle school, but it was in my heart—Daddy, I’m getting married.
NOW IM RUNNIN WITH MY DRESS UNBUTTONED SCREAMIN BUT DADDY I LOVE HIM
“I want a chocolate cake,” he said. “With raspberry filling.”
DONT FORGET THE MIRROR GLAZE
Because I really did believe he was coming. If I didn’t, would I have taken extra care with my hair that morning? In the shower, would I have shaved my legs not once but twice, just to be safe? Would I have put on that new dress and worn those heels that made my feet hurt if I truly didn’t believe he was coming? No. Deep down I more than believed it. I knew it.
mind you this isn’t her boyfriend
“Conrad’s glad to have his little sister around again,” Mr. Fisher said in a jovial kind of way.
are we in alabama?
“Hell yeah we are.” Jeremiah pulled me back onto his lap. “Right, wifey?”
EWWWWWWW KILL ME NOW
He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised. Take care of him, Connie. I’m counting on you.
STAND UP CONRAD
I didn’t have an answer to that question. There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.
I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night.
LMAO I LOVE CONRAD’S POV SO MUCH
“My name is Denise Coletti, I’m calling from Adam Fisher’s office.”
DENISE
I was definitely staying out of it. The next morning, I got up early to see Laurel.
A MAAAAAAAAAN
Conrad reached out and wiped my chin with his shirt. It was maybe the most intimate thing anyone had ever done to me.
AHHHHHHH THE SCENE
“You do a shit job of edging.”
that’s what she said
“Belllllly,” he called out. “I’m gonna marry you, girl.”
EWWWWWW TRAUMATIZED
“I see you again, and everything I planned goes to shit. It’s impossible.… I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke. “Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”
I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one.
In my memory he would always be golden.
you’re so golden
“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”
We didn’t know what was ahead of us then. We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
STOPPPPPP IM GONNA CRY
