Meagan Brandy

For years, I've dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. It didn't matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end. It led me to him. My future was clear, and he was it. Until suddenly ... he wasn't. Now I'm a shell of who I was, on a path too blurry to follow, and I see no way out. No way up. They say first loves last forever. That's exactly what I'm afraid of.

Say You Swear

Sara Poole

"Don't mind her," Brady says, then points at Mase. "I think she's got some pink puff goin' on." 

"Yeah." Brady shrugs as if his nonsense should make total sense. "You know, we get sucked in, tight as fuck, achy ass blue balls and they get swollen, sensitive as hell, pink puffs."

"I'm a smart man, Juliet," he whispers, his gaze dropping to my lips. "Only a fool would let you go once they had you where they wanted you."

Sophia

When I meet an open metallic blue gaze, I stop breathing.

He doesn't say a word, just stares unblinking, and when his mouth hooks higher, I snap out of it, my wild smile breaking free.

He laughs, allowing his hand to fall to his side. "Hi, Juliet."

“I got her.” He places me on his lap, pulling the seatbelt over me awkwardly and buckling it.

I giggle. “I think I’ll be good, Noah. No one else has their seatbelt on.”    

“Leave it on for me, yeah?” He speaks low, but we’re closed in a truck with no music, so I’m positive nobody misses his concern.

"Fuck." His eyes squeeze closed, his forehead falling to mine. "You're killing me."

I peek up at him, but I didn't have to, to know his would be on me. They are.

Watching her dance around in the seat beside me, smiling wide as she picks pieces of the bun off her burger, eating it like a bird as always, it's as if everything clicks. Right here and now.

"If you still love him at all," he rasps. "If there's even the smallest of chances of for you and him, I need you to let me go."

The air whooshes from my lungs in a quick hiss, my heart beating out of control. "Noah."

"I need you to have mercy on me, Juliet... and let me go."

“You wrote it on the calendar. I drew the hearts.”

“Y-you drew the hearts?” I stutter. “In three colors? On the calendar in—”

“In your bedroom.” He stares, hesitating, but only for a moment. “And in your school planner. And on the one in mine.”

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