Academically Yours (Best Friends Book Club, #1)

by Jennifer Chipman

Or maybe I was just the bossiest one out of all of us.

Me

I knew, that once I found the right person, I was going to be in it for the long haul. Once I met her, I was going to do whatever it took to keep her in my life, and make sure she knew that I was hers, forever. And she would be mine. Absolutely, unequivocally, mine. I was just waiting for her to walk into my life.

“I’d much prefer to meet the love of my life in more of a… Unique way.”

Same dude

She carried herself as if the very world depended on her light, the warmth of her smile. Maybe it did.

Again, I needed all of my friends to stop being so… sweet and happy, because it was making me feel a heck of a lot lonelier than I had been before.

-.-

My mom shot me her best mom look, the one that said shut up, I’m trying to make a point here.

“Good thing you were there to swoop in like her knight in shining armor.”

My eyes flickered back up to his. Right. We were having a conversation here.

I took another sip of my beer as the guys stared at me with vacant expressions.

Sounds about right

Because I wanted to keep her.

Hell. I was going to hell, most definitely.

Give him a chance to earn your heart, I told myself.

D:

I got back to my apartment on Sunday and realized that for the first time in a long time I didn’t want to be alone anymore.

I didn’t need a man to heal what another broke. I could—I would heal myself, put myself back together stronger than I ever was before. I am enough, I thought to myself

I didn’t need someone to fix me—I could do that all by myself. All I had ever needed was someone to sit by my side, to hold me while I cried—not to tell me that everything was going to be okay, but to tell me that they were here for me, in whatever capacity.

“Jake? What the hell are you doing here?”

Why are they always JAKE

You looked at her and only saw someone you could use. I look at her and I see everything,”