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Wes & Liz's College Road Trip

Sophia

“Do you know,” I started, going up on my tiptoes to bring my mouth closer to his. “How much I love it when you push me around?”

His mouth turned up in a teasing grin and he put his big hands on my face. His eyes were bright as he looked down at me and said quietly, “I do, actually.”

“No.” Not smiling was impossible when Wes looked at me like that, like he wanted to kiss me and tousle my hair, all at the same time.

I don’t know what came over me, but I heard myself say the words , “Do you know how much I love you?”

Kimmy Hobden

Now I want to be called a Taylor Swift song 🥺

Gabriella Parker

It pained me to think something so inane, but that morning, as she’d subjected me to an endless T-Swift playlist, I realized that Liz was a fucking Taylor Swift song.

Because Liz Buxbaum was supposed to be laughing and romantic - she’d been born in a daydream and been built on love stories, for God’s sake - so seeing her devastated was the worst.

“It’s pathetic how much you want me.”

I put my mouth next to her ear and said, “We’re gonna get arrested if you keep pawing me in public, Buxbaum.”

She gave my chest a little push and stepped back, her eyes squinting as she grinned up at me. “I was tending to your wounds.”

“You were rounding second base,” I said, messing with her hair, knowing it’d make her smack my hand.

She rolled her eyes and slapped at me - my God, I loved her so fucking much - before muttering, “Your pecs aren’t second base, dispshit.”

 - before muttering , “Your pecs aren’t second base, dispshit.”

Her being my girlfriend was still kind of surreal, in and of itself.

I mean, last week when we watched Titanic in her living room and she’d fallen asleep with her head on my chest, I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that Liz was sleeping on me on the couch that sat next to the piano that I used to listen to her play through the back windows.

 was a bit of a mind screw, getting the girl you’d always been preoccupied with.

I took a drink and watched as she adjusted the mirror, pulled out her lipstick, and re-applied.

“Do you realize we could’ve been doing this for years if you weren’t such a pain in the ass?”

Macy

A tiny part of me was still sad about the waning hours left in our wonder years, but the scuffle in the bathroom had showed me that I could weather all the changes that the future held.

Because as long as I had them in my life, I had everything.

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