romance

I__ not the kind of man to bottle up my feelings, Kells. I don__ sit up in my room pining away, writing love poems. I__ not a dreamer. I__ a fighter. I__ a man of action, and it will take all of my self-control not to fight for this. When something needs to be done, I do it. When I feel something, I act on it. I don__ see any reason why Ren deserves to get the girl of his dreams and I don__. It doesn__ seem fair that this happens to me twice.

No matter what I did, I was hurting someone. There was a constant battle of emotions going on inside my head, but even though I still cared about Tom all I wanted, all I needed, was Mika.

I want to get to know you a little better._ His hand touches mine, the briefest of touches but I still recoil my hand into the sleeve of my cardigan. His touch is blisteringly hot, I__ sure earlier today when he cupped my cheek I had burn marks. But no, it is just him, just his touch, it sends crazy little shivers throughout my entirety.__ don__ understand you_ you said you want what you cannot have. Isn__ this a form of torture?___oes a person who wishes to lose weight not taunt themselves with sweets? Does a person not go by the same window every day, just to glimpse the piece of jewellery they long for, yet can never attain? We torment ourselves every day with things we cannot have. Perhaps it is torture, but perhaps my request is genuine.

Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. __ammit!_ he says again with more feeling. __hy does stuff like this keep happening?___ou say that as if it__ a bad thing,_ Rob says, smirking.

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that__ what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.

You__e different, Elli. You__e unlike anyone else, it__ because of that___ow can a Prince, how can someone like you be seen with me? I get it, Evan, its fine.___t__ because of that, I want you.

I thought it was just him,_ she says, ignoring him. __ut then I found out I had the same effect, which means the Society did something to my head too.__age__ eyes close, horror washing over him. __ou really do love him.___es. No. I don__ know._ Her cries start up again, piercing his heart. __age, help me.___ love you,_ he says, holding her closer. __hat__ real.

Just in case you__e wondering,_ Gage says, breaking the silence, __his alliance of ours doesn__ mean I like you.___eeling__ mutual._ Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

I__ sorry,_ he says. No two words were ever truer.Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She__ the flaw in the paragon of life__he reason angels choose to dive to their downfalls in fiery comets of stardust.

I can____on__ do that to him,_ Summer says sharply. __r to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren__ real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can__ trust that any of this is real.

A layer of fine powder coats his skin.__y lungs are turning to concrete,_ Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.__o are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things?_ Avery coughs and pats Rob__ back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact.

I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

You should__e told me,_ she repeats. __ecause here__ a news flash: You might__e wanted to shelter me, but there__ nowhere you can hide me that__l keep me safe from what__ inside my head.

Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.

I can__ just take it.___ou can. I__ giving it to you._ She affirms, glimpsing quickly up at me and then down to the floor, moving her foot once and then back again. Still her hand is offered to me, still flinching with the ring in her palm.__hat do you want for it?___othing._ __ou must want something._ __... got what I wanted._ She smiles, such a light, smooth movement of her lips, but it dies out so quickly, like a candle light being blown in the wind. __hat__ that?___ got to see you again, to give it to you.

He wanted to break up with me in the cafeteria? Fat chance. I leaned toward him and touched his arm in a girlfriend sort of way. __f you planned to stage a public breakup with me, you can forget it.__musement showed in his hazel eyes. __hink you can stop me?

I__ not mean to everybody. I__ only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.