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35% in and we finally have a SMILE from this grump and I’m done for 🫠 🫠
a freaking SMILE 😆
I know this plot twist/ cliffhanger ending is gonna wreck me. .

he slept with her after avoiding her for DAYS and then fires her

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

he did not just do that

nooo ✋✋✋

I am a SUCKER for a good carnival scene.

NO NONOFOFNONONOGNFJGOF GOD NO PLEASE GOD NO

“The veins in his neck pulse, his pupils blown. “A girl as sweet as you shouldn’t look like sin,” he murmurs, voice full of grit. “Brings me to my goddamn knees.”

His MOUTH.

“Do you still taste like bubblegum?” The tip of his nose glides up the arc of my neck until his teeth find my earlobe. He nibbles on it. “I bet you do.”

Name a better trope than the excruciating slow burn angsty childhood best friends who secretly had a crush on each other but never knew until they grow older and into strangers and years go by and they stumble across each other and then they find out

“… the sound of young laughter ringing in my ears. My mind must be playing tricks on me, or maybe it’s the little girl who asked us for tickets, but I swear—I swear I see her. I see Emma swinging her bucket from side to side, pumping a victorious fist in the air as she smiles down at me, backlit by a sea of stars.”

I’m a mess right now 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Oh my god the ladder scene…. Sunshine 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Im so scared reading this rn…. So many questions so many feelings of foreshadowing….. Cal is so fucking fine tho

EXCUSE ME?

Kinda ended abruptly😵‍💫

This is so cute so far

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The amount of times this girl has said "I'm sorry" to the mmc in every chapter is insane.

Emotional damage

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dante is a real one

“Cal deserved me. He just failed to believe that he did. And somehow, that feels even worse.”

no girl, i supported your delusions for 260 pages. but no, cal does NOT deserve you. he does deserve to burn in fucking hell though!

*spoiler* you’re telling me… he just fucked her ON HIS DESK THEIR COWORKERS ARE LITERALLY WORKING OUT IN THE GARAGE THEY BOTH ORGASM AND HE fires her? i have to admit, of all the characters i’ve read named cal, this one’s gotta be the worst. what a cunt. not to mention after he yells at her for her telling him she’s dying like it’s her own fault. what the fuck am i reading

so many secrets i can’t keep track of… emma? jessica? their parents? i’m so CONFUSED .

lucy just a liiiiittle too desperate don’t u think gf??? make him work a little dude 😭

we were doing so good. wow cal is such a dickwad

Nash frowns. “She doesn’t? And why is that?” “Because I’m sleeping with her, that’s why.”

mortified. delirious. cackling. IM LOSING IT HAHAHAHAHA this is insane

i hope to someday move through life as blissfully ignorant as lucy!

guys sue me im feeling a tad bit desperate what happened to emma and is there grovelling???!

i don’t know how i feel about this

she’s so hyper it’s cute and endearing