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"Can I ask you so?"

He nods

"What, exactly, did you love soyou’ve told me, even fro but a cruel, heartless person So what made you fall so hard?"

He studies me for a ood qualities in her, and that’s the worst part I’ve always known, deep down, that she wasn’t a good person"

Then why?

I just don’t understand Is it that his self esteem isn’t where it should be, and he thinks that’s the best he can do? Is it purely because she’s attractive, and he thought that was a score? How can you honestly love someone, with every piece of your heart, when they’re such a terrible person? How does one’s heart even open enough to let that kind of ugliness inside?

"You think I’m crazy," he says

"No," I shake uess"

He sighs "Sometimes I don’t, either, but I just couldn’t stop how I felt"

"No, I understand that"

"I’m not always the easiest person either," he admits

I turn towards him some more "How do you mean?"

"I’m justnot always nice"

"You can’t say that and not explain, so come on, spill I’m your Bestie, you have to tell me"

He set like that Sometimes I need space and alone time, there are tiuess"

"That’s it?"

His eyes flash to s you listed, you think that s she did to you? You think that because sometimes you’re a jerk, and sometimes you want to be alone, that you deserved that?"

He stares at uessing You didn’t We all have personality flaws, Rory, too y, too needy, too hard, too soft, but what she did, those weren’t personality flaws, that was just an ugly heart that cared only for itself There is a big difference"

"If only everyone looked at the world the way you do You’re a good person, Molly Don’t change that"

"Well, I think you’re a good person, too"