"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."

It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.

Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)

It's not that i don't want you. I lied, earlier, when i said i was protecting you. I'm protecting myself. I don't want to be your rebound, Jacqueline." "Then why are you assuming that role? It's not what i want, either." "What am i gonna do with you?" "I can think of a couple things.

I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want

But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.