“Hold my hand because I might disappear.”
“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.”
“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”
“Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”
“From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.”
“How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?”
“Never,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.”
“I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.”
“So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?”
“It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain.
He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.”
“You just have to belong. Long to be.”