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“I don’t believe in skipping ahead, Dale. I read the book all the way through.
“That’s the girl you complain about driving home with every weekend? That’s the girl you whine endlessly about walking in on you when you’re acting the fool? That’s the girl you dodge calls from and avoid like the plague? Geez, Rule, I never knew you were gay.”
“And you know, maybe next time you could just pee in a circle around me so that they know you’ve already been there.”
“Rule, if this goes bad it’s gonna be so, so bad.” Her voice was just a husky whisper against my chest. “True, but if it’s good, it’s going be so very, very good.”
“You’re always so proper and put together, who knew underneath was such a naughty girl?”
“I’m not giving you his number because he’s mine and if you get anywhere near him I swear to God the things I’ll do to you will be chronicled on Investigation Discovery for years to come.”
“You have me, Shaw, any way you need me, any way you want me, you have me.”
“Because it’s always been you even when I didn’t want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It’s just always been you.”
“When I look at you I don’t see anything but you, and Shaw, you are perfect. I don’t care what color your hair is, if you’re pale or tan, if you have makeup on or just woke up—all I care about is that when I look at you, you always look back and see me. You’re beautiful inside and out and if you wanted to tattoo all that pretty white skin from head to toe, I would be honored to put it there for you, but if not, I’ll take you all smooth and milky white any chance I get.”
“I’m learning easy things never really pay off. It’s the things that make you work that really matter.”
This time there was no fake smiling, no pretending to glide through life. I was struggling and I was struggling hard. I missed him. I loved him. I couldn’t have him and it was killing me in an entirely different way from when I had loved him from afar without him knowing it.
Loving Rule had never been easy. It was always hard and painful and the payoff had been years coming, but I had never decided he wasn’t worth it. To me, loving him had never been a choice; it was just something I had decided was inevitable, just like I had decided that him ever coming to care about me was never going to happen.
“Here’s my heart, Shaw. You have it in your hands, and I promise you’re the first and last person to ever touch it. You need to be careful with it because it’s far more fragile than I ever thought, and if you try to give it back I’m not taking it.
opposites don’t just attract, they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.”
Whatever was on the agenda I knew one thing. If any of my boys were lucky enough to find a girl who made them feel the way Shaw made me feel, I would do whatever it took to make sure they saw it through to the end. Love like this wasn’t to be missed, even for those of us who had never realized it was out there. Look at me being all optimistic and shit. Remy would be so proud.
