You either have my back....”“You’re at my side....”“Or you’re in my way...”“Be Lilith, Never Eve.

Because he’s the one pure, beautiful thing untainted by ugliness,” he repeated his same words from the shower. “And we love him for it.

What do you think was the only thing that made me keep breathing?” My tone hardened as I clenched my jaw. “In my brain, I reached for you. I never stopped reaching for you.

People hide in the dark. They quench their thirsts in the dark. They build their secrets in the dark. We’re more ourselves here than anywhere else. I get to be me...” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.

You and me against the world,” he whispered, picking up speed and going harder. “Always,” I said.

Don’t worry,” he said letting me go and adding a brownie and chocolate milk to my tray. “All they see is me fucking with you. They’d never suspect—” “That you were serious?” He grinned to himself and dumped a bag of pretzels and some French fries on my tray. “No, that you like me.

The last line of the confession read ‘We want what we want.’” I turned my eyes on him as sweat cooled my pores.

I build with you now,” he whispered to me, the heat of his mouth on my lips. “We make Thunder Bay together, Em. I love you.” I love you. I closed my eyes, my face cracking and my eyes filling with tears.

I reached in and pulled out a black one to match his white one instead, both with a thick red stripe down the left side. “I like this one,” I said. He smiled and pulled his out, closing the back hatch and locking the car.