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“Derrick, you could’ve been anything short of a serial killer, and you’d still be nore the last eight years of your life, except for the girls, of course”

“So anything past eighteen”

“Yes, because that’s when you changed, but you were gone away to college, and I didn’t see how much I want this with you, but I want uy that everybody used to want to be around”

“That guy who had er than uy who used toas I ith him, I was safe The one whoThe one I never stopped loving even when he broke my heart”

Da I do, to find loves to handle her with care to make up for the shitty way I’ve treated her up until now Meanwhile she’s fucking years ahead of the program

“Are you sure that you love me? That you’re not just fascinated with an ideal you have of me from childhood?” She looked into my eyes; no fear, no hesitation

“I wouldn’t be here now if I wasn’t sure”

Jenny

I’m nervous as hell I mean every word I say to hio fro that his , that he’d hurt rand effort that it’ll take forever

I want to just cut through all the bullshit and get us to where ould’ve been had our lives not been interrupted I want the drea to lick my wounds and walk a different path when he wasback now that he’s free I’d be a fool if I did that

We’re working at cross-purposes here though him and I He thinks he needs to start over, to woo me and make up for the way he treated me And I’m already past that “You told hteen for six ether”

I like shocking hih at the unexpectedness of the words that co this side of myself hidden fro with others, but this is the way I’ve always seen the two of us together