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I’ when he pulls back to look atyou"

He looks at ht and I cannot, cannot, breathe I want to tell him to tell me to stay I want to tell him I love him I want him to tell me he loves me back But I’m afraid Afraid that this is just a moment, that it’ll pass

That he’ll leave me That I’ll leave hi afraid Just trust in this, Livvy

I liftain, a deep, tender flick of his tongue

Then his lips are gone and I’htful expression

"I was always going to go That’s the plan, right? Own a business at twenty-six, etcetera etcetera," I say

He looks atI’ve ever done"

"You’re the one who gave e to really believe I can follow my dreams and do it"

He just looks at

"Goodbye, Callan II learned a lot"

And I did I learned you can’t always count on your life plans to go your way Soer picture Puts you where you didn’t expect to be To learn what you need to learn Life sometimes doesn’t run in the cycles it’s expected to We are all here for a blink Life changes in a blink We fall in love, so his hands into his pockets "It’s a stupid rule, Livvy So are some of mine We like to control our environments, but the more I try to control this, the more it slips out of my hands Time doesn’t matter, really I understand you have your rules, but I’ to break ," he says There’s a warning in his eyes

"Goodbye, Drake"

"Goodbye, Fanny"

I take ive you this? Not like a pro, justI don’t know," I ra "Goodbye, Callan"

I hold it together as I take the elevator to the lobby and head horand pillow

I don’t feel like a queen now, I don’t feel like anything a lasses, quietly staring out at Chicago

"Carmichael ca "Oh"

"He talk to you yet?" He seeoodbye yesterday We’re friends and on good teres to stop s"