Shelly Crane

You know when you__e on a course that you know is the right one. You can__ explain it, you can__ define it, you don__ know how you got there or what all the obstacles will be, you just know the end result will be amazing and it will be worth it. That was the road I was on. Full speed ahead, no blinkers or turn signals, just cruise control.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I__ put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

You're killing me, little human.

He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. __here it is._ He palmed his chest again and sighed. __ll is right in the world again.

Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.

Think with your eyes open.

The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

I wanted someone to want me in all ways and someone who I wanted the same in return, And I'd found him.

You know that feeling when you__e at your favorite restaurant and you see the waitress coming with your food, that happy feeling that slides down your spine? Find the girl that gives you that same feeling. And marry her.

I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip.

I found the only place I ever wanted to live again in this girl, right her in my arms. I leaned back just barely, ran my thumb from her brow o the tip of her nose and stopped at her lips, loving the way her eyes fluttered. ____l always come to you.

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole fromyou. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make youforget.

We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.

I smiled sadly and whispered, "I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know.""I know," he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, "and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time.

But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasn__ sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before I__ given him a chance to show him what it was like to ride out the storm.