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“Our gazes meet again, and I stare at her.
It hits me then.
Right near center ice and in front of twenty thousand people.
A thought I’ve been having more and more lately these last few weeks, but becomes solidified right now: this woman is fucking incredible.
Special.
Changing the future of the sport and inspiring girls and women everywhere, all while wearing ribbons and mascara.”

THE WAY HE IS IN AWE OF HER

“Half the arena is women, which isn’t anything new. What’s different are the signs and jerseys they’re holding. None of them are for me or the boys.
They’re all for Emerson.”

“But I spend a lot of your money.”

“Someone needs to.” “And I’m messy. You don’t like messy.”

“I like your mess.”
 “And I’m needy. I have no idea how to be alone.”

“Good. I don’t want you to be alone. I want you to be with me.” ”

Zee changing his list of girls from each city to things he and Stevie do in each city!

He just adopted Rosie.
Gave Stevie his phone number (big deal bcs of his mom)
Donated 50 grand to the pet shelter

Zander begging Stevie for just one date and then she disappears after their dance at the gala. I wanna cry

That’s why alcohol has helped me piece things back together, so I could always be the Dylan they wanted—the one who never adds to the weight they’re already carrying. I was trying to be a friend, an escape for everyone, even if it meant I could never escape myself. I’d be that for them forever because that’s what people need. Not another reason to be depressed. Not another burden.”

“I know she’s worried about me. They all are. But what we have here is important to me, and I wouldn’t ruin it by revealing all these messed-up parts of myself now that it’s already too late. No one wants a broken person around.

He makes her tea and she thinks it’s so sweet you doesn’t tell him how bad it is

He goes on a run with her after he finds out she runs at night by herself

“This isn’t the way I thought my life would turn out.
I didn’t think I’d be living in this town or walking next to this girl.
Sometimes the best things in life—the best thing, love—can come out of left field.”

“Finding someone you share an intense emotional connection and a consuming physical attraction with isn’t a common occurrence.
I know what Lennon and I share is rare. I knew it in high school and college, and I’m even more certain of it now.
She’ll always be it for me.”

The reason Caleb's mom didn't like Lennon was because is had had an affair with her mom, but overall she isn't so bad anymore

CALEB BOUGHT THE FARM FROM LENNON! HE WAS THE BUYER AND HE KEPT IT IN HER NAME SO THEY CAN GET MARRIED AND RAISE CHILDREN THERE

“I still get this giddiness around her that’s hard to explain. It feels like an addiction. No matter how much I’m around her, I always want more time.
That feeling is called love, I guess.
It’s hard to define something so intangible, that emerges in so many forms. That changes and grows. That doesn’t duplicate and is always different.”

Lennon gets a package that was ordered by her grandpa of a sweater from the university, she decided to sell the far and transfer to the university, and is loving it

They come back from the trip and her grandpa's dead, she starts shutting people out, and Winters has to go back to school

She visits Winters out of nowhere and he is thrilled the whole "were did you get that winter's hoodie, they don't sell that at the book store happens" and then Winter suprise Leannon at the farm and gives her a check of money, that she has no choice but to accept

“Let me say this. I was wrong, back in high school. I didn’t believe you. I didn’t believe in us. And I’m so grateful I’m so grateful that you did. You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me, Caleb Winters. I want you to know, whatever happens this year or next year, I’m in this. I’m all the way in. You could get drafted to a team that plays on Mars, and I’d wait twenty years for you to get back from space.”

Three years later theyre still doing long distance its the summer before senior year and they spend 3 days at Luke's lakehouse

“I don’t want you to go anywhere,”
“I’ll always come back, Lennon.”
“Do you promise?”
“I promise. You’re the one thing I’m sure about. You’re my home. All the other stuff, it doesn’t matter. We’ll figure it all out.”

“Don’t get lost,”
“I’m coming back, Lennon. This isn’t goodbye.”
“Don’t make promises you can’t keep, Caleb.”
“I’m not.” Fierceness fills his expression. “I mean it.”
I nod once, but I don’t let myself believe it. “Goodbye, Winters.”
He knows I don’t believe him. It’s obvious in the long, frustrated breath he blows out before he nods back. “See you, Matthews.”

“Then I kiss him. Really kiss him. And I pour everything I am into it. My hopes. My fears. My dreams.
Somehow, when I wasn’t paying attention, while I didn’t know to stop it, Caleb Winters became all those things to me. Someone I hoped to see. Became afraid to lose. Dreamed about. He mixed with everything else that makes me Lennon Matthews, and is now so knotted with the rest of me I don’t know how to untangle him.”

“What the hell did you just do?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“You ran out of time on a two-hour exam? You chose not to write that paper. You’ll be lucky to end up with a B. I have no idea why you—”
“You want to be valedictorian, right?”
“Not because you handed it to me. I can earn my own accomplishments, Caleb. You didn’t do this for me.”
“Then why did I do it, Lennon?”

“But any time someone would say something about you, he’d defend you. Until no one would say anything about you, around him. I kissed Ryan in front of him once, trying to make him jealous. Ryan mentions talking to you at your locker? Caleb hasn’t spoken to him since. That’s why we’re not friends, Lennon. Because I’m in love with Caleb. And he’s in love with you.”

“I didn’t want to be associated with you, because I thought it would drive away Caleb.” She shakes her head, pursing painted lips. “And then you turn out to be the one girl he gives a shit about. I thought he’d get over it, honestly. I mean, he’s Caleb Winters. Every girl has a crush on him. And you, you barely acknowledged him.

“I know I’m not unattractive. Guys have shown interest in me. But none of them have ever looked at me the way Caleb Winters is looking at me right now: like I’m oxygen and he’s just run out of air.”

Okay, the camping scene where they go on a canoe, and they fall into the water, but then Caleb finds out Lennon is staying in Landry, and that she never thought it was serious, so he ends it

The dare to kiss Winter's best friend, and then Caleb admits he's in love with her

They're dancing at prom and she realizes she's in love with him, but is too scared to admit it

There’s nothing I’d rather be doing right now, Lennon. You think this is a waste of time? It’s going to be the highlight of my day. I’d watch you swing and miss at a baseball all day. I’m doing this to help you. So you can stay or you can go, but either way stop acting like I wound up here on accident, okay?

“You think I do whatever I want, but you always make excuses when it involves you. If I bring you over to my house or talk to you at a party or invite you to the movies, you never seem to see it for what it is. So, fuck it. You think there are a million other things I’d rather be doing right now? Wrong. ”

“I listen to him munch popcorn.
I watch him bounce his knee.
And…I’m attracted to Caleb Winters. I don’t just find him objectively good-looking. I like talking with him, knowing he’ll have a response ready for anything I say. I like how he doesn’t seem to care I’m a loner and an outsider. I even enjoy the fizziness when I’m around him, how my awareness of everything is heightened.”

So Lennon goes over the Winter's, and she accidentally falls asleep in his bed, he drives her home in the morning and helps with all her morning chores

Lennon is not passing the baseball unit in gym, and he offers to help

They bump into each other at the grocery store and Winter invites her to go to the movies with his friends

So they meet first day, and they already have banter LOVE

“Whoever came up with the dumb jock stereotype never met Caleb Winters. I didn’t need to know his class ranking to think he’s smart.”

No stereotype for dumb jocks i already love

Her calling Winter the hottest guy in school to his face 10/10

They both showed up early to the interview to one up eachother

“Sometimes, it felt like girls only saw me for my stick—my hockey stick, that was. It was part of the reason I wasn’t interested in having a girlfriend. I didn’t have the time to dedicate to one, but mostly it was because I never felt like I could trust the motives of the girls who showed an interest in me.”

He got into a fight because the guy was talking about his sister