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They’re adorable after making my eyes dry

“Me crying in his arms like a blubbering mess makes up for five years of heartbreak and sorrow? That makes zero fucking sense, but okay.”

“I don’t hate you, Nathan. Don’t you get it?”
“Get what?” Mouth set in a hard line, I cross my arms over my chest.
He looks annoyed and resigned at the same time. His face scrunches up as if he’s in pain, though he smiles through it.
“I love you.”

Finally!!!

“Why should I get up anyway? Why should I get up, ever, if not to fetch my grandpa’s shotgun and put an end to my misery for good?”

They should make something like you can hug a book character.

His gaze cuts up to me, eyes blazing. “Oh yeah? What if you already are?”
My stomach does a flip. What the hell?
“The grad party,” he clarifies. “You fought off Eric and Tyler, yeah, but then you made sure I got fucked regardless. Maybe I didn’t need that from you. Maybe I wanted one fucking aspect of my life to remain pure and untainted! But no, couldn’t help yourself, could you?”

Oh a lot of oh

“There are dozens of them. Dozens of photos. In most, he can’t be older than eight or nine. On some, there’s a hand—an adult’s hand, large and hairy. Oh god. He . . .
The floor melts under my feet, and my stomach plunges with it.”

Oh. Oh god i can’t even process it

“Beneath a layer of soft, crumpled paper is a photograph. A photograph of a young boy, naked on a bed. His face, scrunched up in pain, is half-hidden from the camera. He’s younger than I’ve ever seen him, but those vivid green eyes, the straight slope of his nose, the narrow jaw . . .
There’s no doubt. It’s him”

i was so stunned i even turned off my iPad to process it believe me my eyes are dry