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19: Starry Night
As we weaved through the streets of Port Agnes, I couldn’t keep my eyes off of Jack. Something had shifted between us back there, and it was terrifying and exhilarating all at once. Maybe we were moving too fast, but I could tell we were heading somewhere good. And I didn’t want to slow down.
We we
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Sleep pulled at my eyelids as Jack and I lay in my bed the next morning, a tangle of arms and legs. I rested my head on his bare chest, my fingertips tracing over the smattering of hair on his chest. A smile touched my lips. Lifting my head, I looked at him. “Hey you,” he murmured, his hair thoroug
Something So Sweet 21: Like Magic
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Something So Sweet 22: Meet the Elliott’s
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Something So Sweet 25: Only Okay
“You’re a bad best friend.” I glared at Cat and picked up my phone, making sure to put my hand over the speaker. “Bad, bad best friend.” She barely glanced up from the plate of scrambled eggs she was salting. “Yeah, yeah. Thank me later.”
Something So Sweet 26: Dessert is Off the Table
Cat didn’t go. We went instead. Jack enforced her dinner first, then dessert rule. He made conversation over appetizers, charmed me over wine, and force-fed me lasagna till I couldn’t move.
Something So Sweet 27: Pot Roast Predicament
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Something So Sweet 28: Inappropriate Ex/Current Girlfriends
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As I watched Wes disappear into the darkness, the smile still lingering on my face faded. The girl he’d described—the one who didn’t care what people thought—what happened to her? I’d always just assumed I grew up. And got boring along with it. When was the last time I’d don
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