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Michael’s eyes widened with guilt "Oh, I’m so sorry I didn’t…"

"Don’this sister" I sri me to hop down

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"Touché" I would’ve been lying if I said I didn’t like getting under his skin like that He hated all conversations that included talk of his sister being kissed bythe line That’s why I always made them

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I’d fallen in love with hundreds of different ht I knehat love looked like based on the words within those pages Love was togetherness, strength, and so for

What I didn’t expect were the fears true love brought with it The fear that I’d never be enough for him The fear that he’d find another The fear that so for The fear that love wasn’t always enough Loving so vulnerable to the chance that soht leave, and all I ever wanted was for Brooks to stay

I tapped hiently on the shoulder, and he stirred froh to read

"Sleeping," he replied with a tiny sainst his ear before I moved to kiss his neck

Do you promise me the same type of love I’ve read about inHis arulfed by his warie May I pro your tea," Mrs Boone said, flabbergasted on a Monday afternoon at lunchtime "You never drink your tea"

What could I say? Love s

"It’s that boy, isn’t it?" she asked with an arched eyebrow "Is he the reason you’ve been acting like a giddy schoolgirl each tiher sandwich

"Oh osh! I knohat I want to do withroo wildly while holding a book "I knohat I want to be after I graduate school next year!"

"Well, out with it," Mrs Boone ordered

Cheryl paused her erraticher novel to her chest "I want to be an activist"