Today Tonight Tomorrow

“Come on. I’m giving you an olive branch here.”
“If I can’t smack you with it, what’s the point?”

His words peel the Band-Aid off the wound.

But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.

When he grins, it’s bright enough to light up the night sky.

It’s kind of beautiful.

MOST RUTHLESS KILL: Alexis Torres Aiden Gallagher, by way of breaking up with him

A low whistle rolls through the crowd. Five thousand dollars—that’s more than double our prize from last year. It would cover the first-year tuition my scholarships didn’t.

I could buy so many books

“I am. This… this feels real. I want to be with you.”

APRIL, SENIOR YEAR

It’s meant to be encouraging, I think, but it’s incredibly distracting.

When he grins, it’s bright enough to light up the night sky.

It’s kind of beautiful.