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Why students had a firm dress code but faculty did not was something I would never understand.
I wish we could go back to the very first night…
I missed you like it was the very first night
Hubbard Hall looked like a mansion that once belonged to the last great American dynasty.
and they said, there goes the last great american dynasty
He too had come in with the rain.
just know i'm right here hoping, that you'll come in with the rain
Because you’ve got my favorite smile on your face
Tag Swell had a Midas touch.
your midas touch on the chevy door
Jump, then fall?
don't be afraid to jump then fall, jump then fall into me
He was this magnetic force who kept dropping times in the pool and adding muscle in the weight room.
i take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover
Which, I had to admit, smirking a little, was mastermind-level genius.
cause i'm a mastermind
That was one of the things I loved most about Alex Nguyen: He put you at ease. He calmed you.
We all huddled together to read:
Tag is definitely a die hard Swiftie!
To Our Fearless Leader:
i'd be a fearless leader
Meet her at midnight for your second clue.
Meet me at midnight
If he didn’t realize the gold rush of attention he got from girls and how hard it was for me to handle, it meant he was enjoying it.
everybody wants you, but i don't like a gold rush
“Feel free to speak now.”
speak now or forever hold your peace
“Although after you turned six, it became difficult wrangling you into bed with Taylor Swift blasting on the other side of the door. You always wanted to go dance with the girls in the common room.”
Honestly, it explained why my go-to karaoke song was “The Story of Us.” One of the girls must’ve been going through a tough breakup.
and the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now
“When’s the murder happening?” everyone always asked. “No body, no crime,” we always answered.
“Blair isn’t a girlfriend, Lily. Blair is a Band-Aid.” He paused. “Well, more like a box of Band-Aids.”
band-aid don't fix bullet holes
Because there were only two options when it came to Taggart Swell: loving him with every bone in my body and beat of my heart or cutting ties with him completely.
I felt it there, burning red.
burning red
it would be impossible to trace the robbery back to Bonnie and Clyde.
we were jetset bonnie and clyde
I know prank collaboration goes against code, but I didn’t care about painting by the numbers.
we never painted by the numbers, baby
Nothing about being the Jester seemed worth it if you couldn’t be my partner in crime.”
So it goes, I thought.
so it goes
Sunday matinée showings were ours, Lily.
i hit the sunday matinée
I would’ve loved to make bullet points and annotate maps and consult a rhyming dictionary with you.”
“All’s well that ends well,”
all's well that ends well to end up with you
The golf cart served as our getaway car, but it turned out a getaway car wasn’t truly a getaway car if you were taking what you wanted to get away from with you.
no nothing good starts in a getaway car
“But there’s only a week left of school, so we said ’tis the damn season and celebrated it.”
'tis the damn season, write this down
“I understand there is a certain je ne sais quoi about illicit affairs on campus,
and that's the thing about illicit affair and clandestine meetings and stolen stare
Tag’s green eyes had flashed in the moonlight before everything began to spin.
didn't you flash your green eyes at me?
It was nothing but fun and games.
it's all fun, and games 'til somebody loses their minds
This sad, beautiful, tragic hoax of loving each other.
what a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair
We were already dancing with our hands tied.
dancing with out hands tied
“Just a mad woman.”
no one like a mad woman, you made her like that
“Yeah, Daniel. Look what you made me do.”
look what you made me do
“Okay, well, this is me trying,”
i just wanted you to know that this is me trying
“Because,” he said, “you’ve got Tag’s favorite smile on your face.”
He was right; Tag’s and my communication skills were terrible.
oh yes, indeed
“You will always be all over me.”
i still got you all over me
“No, not sunset.” Tag rejoined me at the window. “We’re beyond that.” He grinned, then raised the camera with me in its crosshairs. “This is the afterglow.”
MEET ME IN THE AFTERGLOW
King of my heart, Alex said.
king of my heart, body, and soul
a one-shouldered black gown that made her look like she’d time traveled here from the Roaring Twenties.
roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool
Another wave had yet to crash, but I suddenly felt like I was going to sink and drown and die.
ocean blue eyes looking in me, i feel like i might sink, and drown, and die
