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Shit My heart bursts as the words tu for you"

Eainst my skin and my whole body is on fire Moerous Boys who say pretty things A voice in my head screa on between us?" I ask

Oz shakes his head slowly "I don’t know"

"I like you," I admit More than like Whenever I look at Oz it’s butterflies and tingles and it’s not just the fantasy of hi eneral I do like hi, too

"I like you so s Unknown things And I don’t like scary or the unknown "I’ for you"

"Since the moment you walked into my life, I’ve wanted to crawl into your head and knohat you’re thinking, what you’re feeling You scare the hell out of me, and if your father kne you constantly cross my mind, how badly I want to kiss you, he’d put a bullet in my brain"

I shiver as Oz tracesto? Eli or rin "Both of the the trigger I’ve learned to never discount the ones wearing a tie They’re the ones that scare the shit out of hs with me The bed shakes and the vibration shifts our bodies closer together So ainst his chest, hs lie over mine When the sound fades our eyes meet and the smiles vanish

Our chests move in unison My pulse thunders in ain for Oz to kiss rab it, hating the cold left behind "Don’t"

"You’re tired," he says "And we’re playing a dangerous gaust of wind hits the trailer and the walls surrounding us creak I weave h his "Please stay"

There’s a quaver to ht of his lips on mine, his hands on my body, a return to the rhythh to cause rown into an inferno with a good reason to dampen the fla to prevent us fro for the more my body desires I care for Oz Oz cares for h to cushion the fall I’ll take if we succu attraction?

"You’re tired, Emily, and I want to kiss you until you breathe out ood that will coht I’m so tired I’ht-headed But that isn’t the only reason I want hiain and the roar of the trees sends a chill down e open space between the cabin and the forest But here, we’re in the thick of it The dark enclosing us like a casket "Just stay"