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18 yrs old - Gabriel

“I am in love with u, Kierra. Not the kind of friendship love. Not the we’ve-known-each-other-forever kind of love. But the kind of love where I want to kiss u more than anything else in the world. The kind of love where I dream about u and then wake up in my bed mad that u’re not there. The kind of love where I want to spend every day 2 come with u in my arms for the rest of forever.”

“Loving you just is. It’s a constant in an unstable world. I’d fall in love with you over and over again er again, without hesitation. It wouldn’t even take years to fall in love with you, Kierra. It merely takes seconds.”

“If I lost my memory every single day for the rest of my life, I would still find my way back to loving you.

I’d love every version of you. I’d love the young version of you. I’d love the current version, and I’d love the ur gray-hair version, because loving you doesn’t take time.

“But if you don’t say stop Kierra, I’m going to want this. I’m going to want you forever.”

“Can I stay the night?” “Kierra.. you can stay forever.”

“Kierra, you feel like the whole fucking galaxy wrapped up in one human being.”

“If I could, I’d swallow up all her pain and take it on as my own. Eyes like hers didn’t deserve to have such a broken look. Eyes like hers deserved to smile as much as her lips could. They deserved to sparkle with joy and in attainable type of peace. She deserved more.”

Chp 11 - good riddance Gabriel. The way Gabriel loved and cared for Kierra was so apparent in this chapter. I even teared up reading how affected Gabriel was with what happened between Kierra and Brett. 🥹