I Never Thought Of It That Way Novels & Stories

"Let's just be friends instead." It is an idea rather than a plan and I do not know yet what it produces, and I am thinking about it in the way I think about things that I do not have a framework for yet, which is slowly and from multiple directions, and I am still thinking about it when the thing happens.

༒ ℑ𝔪𝔯𝔞𝔫༒ I don't rush into it. Not this time, not like before when everything I said came out of anger, sharp and messy, driven by emotion instead of thought. That version of me got eaten alive in this world, chewed up and thrown around like I didn't matter, like I didn't have any control over my own life. That version of me is gone. Now, I think first.

Why was it the same? I thought I avoided that? Or could it be......?

I could never quite bring myself to settle for that. Never in a million years

"It is not over and I don't think it is ever going to be." * * *

I couldn't think about it much back in there, but… No way! I think...I think I like Lance.

Why didn’t I think of this? What was happening?

"Oh, absolutely, I'm already taking notes on everything you say, you better watch out, Lucian, I can be very persuasive in an argument." "I don't doubt that for a moment," he replied, his tone teasing, his gaze dropping to her mouth before returning to her eyes, the sheer gravity of his look making her breath stutter. "But I think you'll find I am a very difficult man to cross-examine, I have centuries of practice keeping my thoughts to myself." "Centuries, huh?" she joked back, tilting her head to look at him as they approached the front walkway of her parents' house. "What are you, a vampire?"

But it was the truth. I just never thought it would happen to me.

I said. And I meant it. Just not in the way Grace thought.