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The Matchmaker
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2026-09-24 05:38:48
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CRAWLING TO YOU The Kindest Boy
Aiden’s POV“This is a hard pill to swallow. Why… would Abel do that? Could he have?” Daisy’s voice was barely above a whisper as we got into the car.I didn’t answer her. I couldn't bring myself to. My skull felt too small for everything crashing around inside it…old memories colliding with new accusations, none of them willing to fit together.A single image of Abel rose up, sharp and uninvited.He had been the softest person I had ever known. When we were still small, a stray dog had sunk its teeth deep into his ankle. The director reacted the only way she knew how…one vicious swing of a heavy stick and the dog’s leg snapped instantly. Abel cried the entire night, but not from his own pain. I had slipped out of my bed after lights-out, following the wet, broken sounds he was trying to smother into his pillow, and asked if it still hurt. He shook his head and whispered that it must have hurt the dog to bite into his skin…what if its teeth cracked? And cried about how it was rain
CRAWLING TO YOU The Truth?
Aiden’s POVThe caregiver pushed the door open with her hip and held it for us.“Be gentle,” she said in a low voice. “She just woke up from a nap, so don’t rattle her if you can help it…Martha’s emotions are quite fragile."Daisy and I both nodded anxiously.The woman crossed to the narrow bed where an old lady sat propped against pillows, a half-finished piece of knitting in her lap. She rested a hand on the thin shoulder and smiled.“Be good Martha, okay?”Martha didn’t answer. The caregiver squeezed once, then started for the door. At the threshold she paused and looked back.“One more thing. Martha has mixed dementia. Some days she’s clear; other days, the past and present get tangled in her head. She might talk about something that happened twenty years ago as if it’s happening right now. So… just be prepared.”Perfect. Absolutely perfect. The one person I needed information from had mixed dementia. Because apparently, getting answers was too easy.But I didn’t say that out loud
CRAWLING TO YOU Chasing The Lead
Aiden’s POVI have been hurt and furious since last night.The second Ethan opened his mouth to narrate Gabby’s first kiss, something ugly and possessive had cracked open inside my chest. I thought I was her first in every way that mattered. I thought the way she looked at me, the way she had taken me, even the day she confessed to having feelings for me… I thought it meant she had always been mine. Finding out someone else had touched her mouth before I did felt like theft. And it didn’t stop there. Watching her laugh with that Australian boy, Liam and seeing her hold his hand earlier…every second of it had scraped me raw. I wanted her locked away somewhere no other man could reach. At one point during the night I had actually pictured chaining her in a basement so she would never speak to another male again. The thought should have disgusted me but it didn’t.I didn't sleep at all last night. I rolled from one side of the thin camp mattress to the other, mouth full of the bitte
CRAWLING TO YOU I Ruined It
Gabby’s POVI stood frozen in the middle of the room, a strange, hollow ache spreading under my ribs. How could he be that angry over one clumsy sentence that I really didn’t mean? He didn’t even look at me…just walked right past me.“Come sit and finish your food, Gabby,” my mother said gently. “We’ll head back soon. You can talk to him properly once we’re home.”I sat quietly without saying another word. My body was present at the table, but my mind had already left the building. Even when the packing started, even when my friends came to say goodbye, I only half-heard them. The image of Aiden walking past me like I didn’t exist kept replaying on a loop.Was he that mad at me?Ethan caught my elbow and drew me a few steps away from the others, voice low. “What’s really going on with you two? Are you and Aiden actually a thing now? Did he finally—”“This isn’t the place, E,” I cut in quietly. “I’ll call you later.”He studied my face for a second, then nodded and let it go.Liam
CRAWLING TO YOU The Matchmaker
Gabby’s POVIt was Yuna.“Not yet, Yuna. But soon though.”“Ugh. I came by your place to drop off the stuff my mom made for you. The kimchi and bulgogi are still warm in the thermal bag.”I smiled genuinely. Yuna and I had been attached at the hip since freshman year…same lectures, same panic over midterms, same late-night study sessions. She lived in the dorms while I lived off-campus in one of those aggressively secure buildings full of trust-fund kids and twenty-four-hour doormen. I hated how exclusionary it felt, but after what happened the one semester I tried dorm life, I never went back. People got weirdly aggressive once they realized my last name. Fake friendships, strange “coincidences,” especially that one incident that still made my stomach turn if I thought about it too long. Never again. I’d tried more than once to get Yuna to just move in with me, but she always refused, even though she crashed at my place for weeks during exam periods when she needed real quiet. He
CRAWLING TO YOU The Request
Gabby’s POVMy mother stood at the edge of the firelight, arms crossed, looking every bit the elegant enforcer she was.“We were just about to turn in,” I said quickly.“Wonderful. Girls in pairs. Boys in pairs. I don’t want any mischief happening under my watch, have I made myself clear?”If only she knew what had already happened right in front of her earlier.A collective groan rose from the group, but no one actually argued. My mother clapped her hands once. “Move. Gabby, you’re with Mila. Fiona with Stacy. Boys, sort yourselves out.”A chorus of “Yes, Mrs. Walter” followed right after. She stayed until every last one of us had filed toward the tents, then added, almost cheerfully, “The guards are right outside just in case anyone gets any funny ideas about switching.”I climbed into the tent I was sharing with Mila. She was still giggling as she kicked off her shoes.“I like your mom,” she whispered. “She’s got that classic, slightly terrifying regal energy.”I smiled in the dark
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