He hands me a slinky piece of something purple. It looks tiny. Like a jumpsuit that could fit a small child.
But this is all very deceiving. Because the truth is, I am nothing but a coward.
Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?” “What?” He looks mortally offended. “Do I look like the kind of guy who’s never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?
It’s my own fault,” he said, and dragged both hands down his face. “I have only myself to blame. I knew better; I knew you were dangerous. You’ve had the upper hand from the moment I laid eyes on you. I saw you and saw right away that I was in hell, and I hated you for it, because I realized even then that you would be the end of me.
Besides, it’d be a shame to lose such a pretty face.
He swallows, hard, his chest heaving, his words a breathless, shaky whisper when he says “I’m so – I’m so desperately in love with you –.
Don’t fight what you’re born to be.” He grasps my shoulders. “Stop letting everyone else tell you what’s wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer. You have so much more power than you’re aware of and quite frankly I’m” – he shakes his head – “fascinated.
Something like hope had whistled through the cracks in her heart, surprising her with a feeling she’d long forgot. It was then that Laylee looked at her trespassers with new eyes. It was then, dear friends, that she finally smiled.
I fear you might regret saying that,” he said, even as he almost smiled. “Be warned, Kamran. The terms of our agreement are nonnegotiable. Lift a finger against her prematurely and I won’t hesitate to kill you myself.
I only know now that the scientists are wrong. The world is flat.
There was a time when my presence only confused people; I used to be just a regular weirdo, the kind of unfathomable entity that was easily disregarded, easily discarded. But one day, in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, I’d woken up in the spotlight. It didn’t matter that I was just as shaken and horrified as everyone else; no one believed my grief.
But though we’ll know forward and we’ve known backward, we will never know the present. This moment and the next one and even the one that would have been right now are gone, already passed, and all we’re left with are these tired bodies, the only proof that we’ve lived through time and survived it. It’ll be worth it, though, in the end.
You act as if I’m intentionally cruel. As if I’m indifferent to you.” “Aren’t you?” “No,” she whispered, her eyes filling with tears. “Of course not.” Cyrus stared at her from where he stood, his chest heaving with barely leashed intensity. He devastated her with that look, even as he seemed planted in the ground, immovable. “Then be with me,” he said softly. “Let me worship you.
Idiots, are fammbale, let them all burn in hell. -aaron warner.
I am so horribly attracted to him.
I’m feeling stupid. I’m feeling brave because I’m feeling stupid. My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
Should you marry me, it would be in title only. I have no interest in your companionship.” The nosta went cold.
He shook his head and took a deep, shuddering breath, unselfconsciously inhaling the scent of her. “Don’t be afraid of me, angel. I won’t hurt you. I’ll never hurt you.
The Reestablishment promised a future too perfect to be possible and society was too desperate to disbelieve.
I marvel at the drop drop drops of hot water caught in his eyelashes like pearls forged from pain.