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I look to Ryke, and he whispers lowly to me, “She said that she hates when love makes her cry.” Connor replies back in French.
Ryke rolls his eyes and divulges the secrets to me. “He quoted Shakespeare.” He pauses. “My drops of tears I’ll turn to sparks of fire.”
Those two will never change, and I think we all love them best in their intellectual, infatuated glory.

🌟🌟🤧

Rose narrows her gaze. “In your dreams.”
“I don’t have to dream,” he breathes. “I already have you.”
Rose tries not to smile, which causes most of us to smile. [..]
“I hate you,” Rose points out.
“And I love you.”
Rose’s face breaks, and she almost rocks back. “That’s not how it goes. You say that I’m the one who loves you.”
“That’s true too.”
💓💓💓💓

Rose covers his mouth with her hand. “Your voice is the most hideously, annoying thing in this kitchen. Do not talk if you wish to keep your tongue.”
I can tell he’s grinning.
She drops her hand.
He cocks his head. “Rose.”
“Richard,” she warns.

In it, he wrote: Give Ryke Meadows my ashes. I want to be in the clouds, and no one is going to get there but him.[..]
“You’re going to climb one last time with me, Sully.”
Then I grip the rock. With the corners of my mouth lifting, I rise off the dirt.

“Don’t ever insult my daughter again, you microscopic prick—”[..]
“In the seventeen years that she was with you—did you even talk to her?” Jonathan asks. “Did you know she’s charismatic when you discuss things that interest her? Maybe you should’ve seen a damn movie with her—”[..]
“—instead of sitting around on your ass, you scum of this planet.”[..]
Lo is smiling from ear-to-ear.

Ryke Meadows (Gryffindor), Loren Hale (Slytherin), Willow Hale (Gryffindor, like Neville Longbottom).
Thanks for caring about me, even before we were family.
My brother and sister.
I practically had no one eight years ago.

The Hale siblings🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶😭

“She’s practically mute half the time. Never went out of the house, except to movies.” Stop. “She dresses more like a boy than a girl.” Stop it. “She has no friends.” We all stand up at the same time, causing Willow, Jonathan, and Robert to look back at us. Willow is silently crying. When her eyes land on mine, I mouth, my one friend. I make a heart with my hands, and I smile.
😭🥺💓

“Take it,” she repeats,[..]“I just want the best for you.”
“The best for me is to be with you.” [..] “I’m a better f***ing person when I’m with you.” [..]
“Don’t be afraid,” she whispers to him. “You can do anything on your own. I know you can.”
[..]And he says, “I love you.” [..]
“No matter where we are, you’re always going to be my girl.”

GILLOW💗💓💗💓

Connor offering Garrison a job (a project of his own),to back him up financially,to help teach him about business,telling him he believes in him.I love them😭💓

…In her green eyes, I see that she’s seriously confused about why I’d choose her over my brother right now. Why I’d follow her and leave him be.
[..] “I care about you,” I tell her like it shouldn’t be that crazy of a notion by now. “Not because you’re a part of my brother’s life but because you’re a part of mine. You’re my f***ing friend. I love you, alright?”

Ryke & Lil🫶