Rai (is hard to please)’s Reviews > How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager > Status Update

“HotMouth:
You okay? Should I help?

VampireBait:
No, I’ve got it
Actually if you could stay upstairs for another hour, that would be fantastic.
Don’t ask me why.
Don’t ask Kendall why either, she’s a fucking snitch.
 
HotMouth:
Should I be concerned?
 
VampireBait:
…only a little bit?”

“You trusted me so damned much. I just wanted to be that person you believed I was, because you deserve someone like that in your life. Someone incredible.”
“I have someone incredible,” Vincent replied. “He’s just also a stubborn ass on occasion, and I’m okay with that.”

BZZT. bzZT.
Zzt.

“If I was any smarter or any less of a stubborn asshole, I probably would have realized then and there that I couldn’t lift a finger against you without tearing out my own heart in the process.”

Awe
😀🛁🔌

“Is the hallway floor the best place for this conversation?”
“Anywhere we are is the best place, I think.”

Why am I even here anymore
Why do I even EXIST

“He was struck by a dual realization: first, that he had to preserve Vincent’s happiness, and second, that he was the cause of it.”

“Wesley didn’t tell his legs to move, but neither did he tell his lungs to breathe or his heart to beat. They did so because they were born to, and he was born to run into Vincent’s arms.”

Who
Let
You

“He didn’t need his heart, much less in one piece.”

lol 🙃

“There were certainly still plenty of vampires to be had in their twice-weekly conversations, and even more anger and guilt and grief that Wes was slowly wrestling out of the attic in his soul, learning to let it live inside him instead of boxing it all up whenever it grew too much. It felt like running a marathon. But even marathons, his therapist reminded him, were run one step at a time.”

“The thing it still needed was probably an answer. And that, he’d only get by waiting. By providing Vincent space. By not forcing him into anything, even so much as a physical conversation that might make him, with his overly kind nature, feel like he needed to offer Wesley more than he was ready for.”

“She loved you. And she wouldn’t have wanted you to tear yourself up over this. I know that’s easier said than believed, but it’s true.”
“What if I tear myself up today, then put myself back together tomorrow?”
“If that’s what you need.”

I
Am
Not
Ok