new-adult

I underestimated your laziness._ __t__ pronounced intelligence, Kirk.

I__ going to kill you, you know.

You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.

Why am I surrounded by sluts and morons?

You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me.

Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she__ weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

He stabs his fingers through his drying hair and resumes his pacing. __ou think I don__ know this went really fast? I didn__ plan for this to happen. Hell, I didn__ even know if you__ let me talk to you, much less be with you. But then you did and we did and_ He stops in the center of the room and stares at me, his shoulders sagging. __ figured out pretty quick that this is a forever thing for me. I think it has been from the very beginning.

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he__ just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.

Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me.

I feel his intense gaze skimming my face and force myself to look him in the eye. This time, when he leans closer, I know what he wants. He traces my jaw with his fingertips, then moves lower to my chin. My eyelids flutter closed when he tips my face up.Oh my God. Sam Donavon is going to kiss me. The forest holds its breath.I hold my breath.Our lips brush, light as eyelashes. His fingers trail back into my hair, tilting my head. Hot cinnamon dances across my mouth. I__ drowning.And then my name, roared at the top of familiar lungs, cracks the silent night.

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

Selfish as this sounds, I meant what I said earlier,_ he finally says.I try to remember what he said, but everything is kind of a blur. __hich part?_ __he ____ glad you came tonight_ part.__o I__ not imagining the nudging or the sparks or what I could have sworn was his thumb tracing circles on the back of my hand while we walked to his car. __mm. Well in that case, I meant what I said, too.__e kicks a rock I__ two steps from tripping over out of my path. __ou said the potholes in Leslie__ driveway suck.

James is why I never left. I should have left.

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.

James __nockout Jimmy_ O__rien, Granite Fall__ very own boxing legend__ title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear __or protection.__y brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.

I__ beginning to feel as though we__e in some kind of cocoon, I__ just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.