It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her yet I do not think I can exist without her.

I want everything with you America. I want the holidays and the birthdays the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.

Meghan whispered a voice heart wrenchingly familiar drawing me out of the void. I recognized it immediately just as I realized it was a figment of my desperate imagination because the real owner of that voice would never be here talking to me.AshWake up he murmured his deep voice cutting through the layers of the darkness. Dont do this. If you dont come out of this soon youll fade away and drift forever. Fight it. Come back to us.I didnt want to wake up. There was nothing but pain waiting for me in the real world. If I was asleep I couldnt feel anything. If I was asleep I didnt have to face Ash and the cold contempt on his face when he looked at me. Darkness was my retreat my sanctuary. I drew back from Ashs voice deeper into the comforting blackness. And through the layer of dreams and delirium I heard a quiet sob.Please. A hand gripped mine real and solid anchoring me to the present. I know what you must think of me but The voice broke off took a ragged breath. Dont leave it whispered. Meghan dont go. Come back to me.

You picked a lemon throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You dont need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

Marry me Kiara he blurts out in front of everyone.Why she asks challenging him.Because I love you he says walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein your face every mornin I want you to be the mother of my children I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me because without you Id be six feet under and because I love your family like theyre my own and because youre my best friend and I want to grow old with you. He starts tearing up and its shocking because Ive never seen him cry. Marry me Kiara Westford because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin about was comin back here and makin you my wife. Say yes chica.

But maybe you never really had someone she thought now. Maybe no matter how much you loved them they could slip through your fingers like water and there was nothing you could do about it.

You made me feel alive again.

Id rather fake my own fog than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist Its homemade.

Love has a shape but no color. Youre probably wondering If its transparent how do you know what shape it is Good question. Well for one thing I put it together and for another Im currently wearing it like body armor though to the casual observer I appear naked.

I am a slave to your love. Well more like indentured servant.