Kasie West

Hayden?""Yes,Gia?""Nothing I just wanted to say your name

He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.

Not the __e yourself_ line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.

Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

When I was dating, my girlfriends and I used to say, __on__ cry in front of him before date three._ ___ry?_ I echoed, frowning.__eah. Guys gets skittish when you cry.___ don__ think I have to worry about that one.___ou don__ cry?___ don__ make it to date three.

He laughs again. __ou__e different, Caymen.___ifferent than what?___han any other girl I__e met.__onsidering most of the girls he__ met probably had fifty times as much money as I did, that wasn__ a hard feat to accomplish. Thinking about that makes my eyes sting.__t__ refreshing. You make me feel normal.___uh. I better work on that because you__e far from normal.__e smiles and pushes my shoulder playfully. My heart slams into my ribs. __aymen.__ take another handful of dirt and smash it against his neck then try to make a quick escape. He grabs me from behind, and I see his hand, full of dirt, coming toward my face when the warning beeps of the tractor start up.__aved by the gravediggers,_ he says.

I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.

He sighed. "Does it get tiring?""What?""Always thinking you're right."I smiled. "No, not really. It's other people not realizing I'm right that gets tiring.

He looked at the cash siting there "What's that for?" I made myself smile "A good time.

A wrong was just righted. Take care of my best friend.

His eyes are so intense I want to look away . . . or never look away, I can__ decide.

Revenge is never the answer

Note to self: Caymen is very good at sarcasm.___f you__e recording notes for an official record, I__ like the word __ery_ stricken and replaced with __xceptionally.

I've been thinking", Jules saidNever a good thing I thought

I had seen a different side of her, the one where she didn't feel threatened by me, and I liked that side. That side was vulnerable and happy and kind.

Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.

Dad, she's beautiful. I remember where she was standing.

Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.