Noi (in & out) > Recent Status Updates

"He does not have dimples" fair point

"All I see is red."

OK, so no build-up. The roller coaster started now and yo better have buckled your seat belts.

“… We’ll just be a normal couple, flying to visit my parents. We can pretend we’re years down the road, and all the passion between us has cooled.”
I snort. “Sure. Like I’ll ever stop drooling over you.”

They are so cute

“You don’t like my shirt?” August’s mouth twists as if he’s fighting a frown, eyes dropping away from my face. He fingers the edge of his shirt, a navy blue piece of cotton that hugs him like a second skin...
August looks so sad, I feel like I’ve kicked a puppy. A sexy, handsome puppy.
“Not like it?” I scoff. “I’m obsessed with it. I want to rip it off you, then wrap myself in it...”

This is fun

“This was a violin-music-swelling, end of the movie, credits are about to roll kind of kiss..."

“What are your intentions, young man?”

“I remembered a thing I’d read once that said your first thoughts were the ones you’d been conditioned with, but it was the second thoughts that showed who you really were. ”

“Of course you wanted to help. Are you sure you’re cut out to be a lawyer, Archer? You’re not nearly a big enough a**hole.”

“Most of their guys were premed instead of prelaw—there weren’t any rules about it or anything, but it was just the way it panned out. They called us future ambulance chasers. We told them they were gonna need us for their malpractice suits one day. It was all in good fun.”

Ummm

“ “How are you like this? Like, you’re just sunshine, aren’t you?”
I flushed. “I just like to help people out, and you’re good people, Eli.”

So cute

“If your friend could use a little help and it cost you nothing to give it, wouldn’t you?”

“I’m a delicate Southern belle.”

“There was always that point in a semester when your last break felt like years ago and the next one was a couple millennia away”

The worst feeling

“Eli, though? He was cute and funny and awesome company, and he’d definitely tick every box if you swung that way.”

You sure you’re not into guys? Because the evidence says otherwise

“I mean, I like you, but I don’t like like you, which is no reflection on you at all, because you seem like an awesome guy, but just so we’re perfectly clear and there’s no misunderstanding. Not that I’m saying there would be because I’m all that or anything, … like I said, you seem like an awesome guy.”

Aha, sure

“His grin widened. “It’s the hair, isn’t it?” He ran a hand through it, making it even messier. “My mom is always telling me I should cut it.”
I fought the urge to reach out and smooth it down or maybe twist it into elflocks, before turning my attention to my sub while I wondered what the fuck that was all about.”

I WONDER 😏

“And the dating line? Well, sometimes the best way to figure out if that’s water or gasoline on the floor is to just toss a match in there and see what happens.”

That’d be a no actually, better not

“… but I found myself thinking of Eli”

😁

“Eli, I was sure, ran with a different crowd. The art kids… Maybe there was more to them than that, just like there was more to us than double-breasted blazers and boat shoes, but sometimes college felt a little bit like a zoo, where they kept the animals in separate enclosures. A kangaroo didn’t belong in the Arctic exhibit any more than an Alpha Tau belonged at poetry slam night.”

“To quote your Anti-hero, I’m the problem.”

“Is that… are they playing Taylor Swift?”
I echoed his movement, listening more closely, and yeah, they were. It shouldn’t have worked, but it did. “Nice pickup.”
He shrugged, cheeks flushing pale pink. “You caught me. I’m a closet Swiftie.”
“Isn’t everyone?”
“Here’s to Tay-Tay and her eventual world domination.”

“Yeah, I figured you were here with your parents,” I said. “Which one of them told you to you take your lip ring out?”
His eyes lit up, and he smiled. “Oh, wow. That’s amazing. That’s like some Sherlock Holmes shit.”
“Nah.” I snorted. “I just noticed your mouth, is all.”
“Oh.” ”

😉

“It was that stage of the party when you knew the smartest thing would be to leave and go to bed, but you also knew that wasn’t going to happen. Like you knew the universe would fuck you up if you stayed, but you were all like “Come at m, bro.” … and you woke up 3 days later in jail with nothing but your underwear and a traffic cone hat, and your daddy was pissed as hell, but the mug shot was hilarious.”

“I needed this hug.”

A good hug is pure magic

“Not what?” I say. “The same? Because it sounds pretty f***ing similar to me.”

I’m starting to think she’s a little delulu

“… he grips me in his arms and kisses me so deeply, I run out of air and never feel like breathing again. His kiss alone could give me life.
When he finally removes his lips from mine, I ask, panting, “What was that for?”
A corner of his lips jerks up. “I know you.”
And there goes my heart. If I didn’t already know I was in love with him, his sheepish smile and soft words would have done it.”

“It’s funny, how your brain can decide to stop working to protect you during difficult times.”

“… well, the beauty of a real friendship is that no matter how much time passes, you’ll still be able to catch up on what you missed and pick up where you left off. I mean, just look at us right now.”