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bone-softening loneliness that I called privacy to keep my sanity.
Just when I’d thought I couldn’t possibly feel worse, my body said check this shit out.
“If something happens to me… I hope every person in this building gets a paper cut on their tongue. I’m going to poltergeist them, don’t try and talk me out of it.”
“Why are you so beautiful?” I whispered. He didn’t even sound sarcastic as he answered, “Superior genetics. Go back to sleep.”
“If you fall off, I’m not stopping.”
We were already starting off in the shitter. Hopefully it would be the good kind that composted and made things better though.
“Gracie.” His voice went remarkably soft, almost a sigh. “You won’t go hungry again. I promise.”
“You sure you don’t have a crazy wife locked in the attic?” “She’s in a locked room next to mine,”
I’m sure you have better things to do.” He had some brooding to do. Some grumpy faces to practice in the mirror.
“You’re a good person, and I didn’t want to like you, but I do.”
“It annoys me when you’re fucking cute.”
“Is this hell? Are we stuck together forever?” I whispered. His scowl was monumental. “You’d be lucky to be stuck with me for eternity.”
Alex reached forward and grazed the ends of my hair with his fingertips. “Your hair looks nice like this. Pretty.”
If you could have another power, what would it be?” “Nothing. I’m already perfect,” he said, with a straight face too.
“Why were you in a bad mood when you showed up at the bar?” I asked. There was no hesitation. “I got home, and I didn’t know where you were.”
“For someone who said he’s never taken care of anything before, it sure does sound like you’ve had a whole lot to take care of,” I told him. His breath was slow, slow, slow. “Nothing that was ever just mine though. Nothing that ever really mattered to me.”
He was no ray of fucking sunshine. He was the moon. A full fucking moon so bright no amount of clouds could fully block him out.
And you’re not supposed to be anyone else’s Gracie, you’re my friend. My Gracie. I’m too heavy to be a good swimmer, but I’ll never let you drown. I’ll never leave you. I’ll never keep secrets from you again.”
“You’re one of the only people on this world, in this entire fucking universe, who never has to be scared of me.”
“There is no place I wouldn’t look for you. Seven miles deep in the ocean. On a planet in a distant galaxy. I would go anywhere for you if someone took you, Gracie,”
“I know your parents let you down, but I would never. All those things I promised I’d never do, wouldn’t mean shit to me if it came down to you or anyone we made together in the future.
Nothing and no one is ever going to hurt you again. I won’t let it happen.”
Being with you makes me happy.
“I didn’t want to like you. I didn’t plan on feeling this protective of you and your smile and your heart. Definitely didn’t want to fall in love with you and your secrets. But then you had to go off and say, ‘You snooze you lose, motherfucker,’ and I knew my life was never going to be the same after that.” He dipped his head again and snuggled me even closer as he said, “And I don’t want it to be.”
“Best friends don’t break their best friend’s hearts.”
My healing will help us age together. You’ll live as long as I do. We can haunt whoever you want after that.”
