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Star:I’m aggressive by nature and I wasn’t lying about sex being a weapon. That trait doubled down during that period of my life. That I don’t associate sex with pleasure is probably a hang-up.
Conor:Do you ever want to meet me?
Star:A part of me does.
Conor:Just a part?
Star:Another part of me knows that I’ll push you away at some point and you won’t come back.
Conor:You don’t know that.
Star:I do.
Star:No one sticks around me. I’m toxic.
Conor:Savannah loves you. She left, but she came back.
Star:Savannah’s different. Katina is too.
Conor:Why?
Star:I got to them when they were young lol. They’re used to me being toxic. At some point, I’ll alienate her again. Katina too. I think they’ll come back. But I never know for certain.
Star:Savannah wouldn’t have made up with me if I hadn’t shared what went down with the Sparrows.
Conor:Don’t we always have to justify why we do the things that we do if it hurts other people?
Star:Is that how love is supposed to work?
Conor:I don’t think love is ‘supposed’ to be easy.
Star:If it’s a struggle, then what’s the point?
Conor:Two years ago, I’d have agreed with you.
Star:What changed?
Conor:I met you.
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IN TOO DEEP - SUM 41
SUMMER
“It didn’t haveto be this way,” I sang as I hauled the limp deadweight along the shiny parquet floor of Midlothian Palace’s entrance hall.
Ignoring the lump's groans when we reached the grand staircase, I dragged him up each step, aware that his head cracked against the edge every time.
Sometimes, you didn’t have to work harder, just smarter.
“You could have just told me who he is.”
A garbled reply was his only response.
In all fairness, Prince Edward of Midlothian couldn’t speak freely right now. His face was taped up like the rest of him with cling wrap. He had a few air holes, but I’d squished his features up nice and tight to compress him as much as possible.
