Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG

I can't make it fade.

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.