Jamie McGuire

Your last first kiss

I know we’re fucked up, all right? I’m impulsive, and hot-tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then you need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don’t deserve you…but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I’ve loved anyone or anything, ever. When you’re around, I don’t need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands…all I need is you. You’re all I think about. You’re all I dream about. You’re all I want

I’m…pretty sure I’m in love with Travis,” I said, bracing for his reaction

uncle John says people can only make us angry if we let them, and if we let them, we give them power.”

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“It’ll be over soon,” I said, holding her. I’d never been so thankful for a storm in my life.

“I just do. I want you to see us win. I want you to be there when I run off the field. I want to see you waiting by my car when I come out, my hair wet, still out of breath, high on adrenaline. I want you to be part of it.”