You like me,” he finally said. “You like me, like me.” He was trying not to smile.
“No. I hate you,” I said, hoping that saying it would make it so.
“And yet, you draw me.” Noah was still smug, completely undeterred by my declaration.
This was torture; worse somehow than what just happened, even though it was only the two of us. Or because it was only the two of us.
“Why?” he asked.
“Why what?” What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.
He looked down at me, all sincere and open and with that chaos hair in his eyes and I wanted and didn't want and I had to say something.
Michelle HodkinThere," he said as he finished tying the laces on my left show. "Now you won't fall.
Too late.
I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.
Michelle HodkinTags: couples mara-dyer noah-shaw
Where are you going?”
“My God, you’re like the plague.”
“A masterfully crafted, powerfully understated, and epic parable of timeless moral resonance? Why, thank you. That’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said to me,” he said.
“The disease, Noah. Not the book.”
“I’m ignoring that qualification.
I don’t have a favorite color, though I strongly dislike yellow. Horrid color.”
I resolved to wear something yellow the next time I saw him. Yellow from head to toe, if I could manage it.
No," I said, louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses," I said, as though reading from a dictionary of modern profanity.
Michelle HodkinI find it hilarious that whenever I light up, Americans look at me like I'm going to urinate on their children.
Michelle HodkinOnly narrowly avoided being elbowed in the face by a girl attired in what could only be described as "slutty Gryffindor" apparel. So wrong.
Michelle HodkinWhat are you smirking about, over there?"
"I'm more well-rounded than you."
"Not possible. You're American," he said. "And if it is true, it's only because you like crap.
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