He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.