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2021-08-18 03:31:11"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep, your eyes close." Pablo Neruda.
It's my birthday today. Memories are rushing through me like a broken dam. I left Luca's apartment before sunrise. Here I am, locked up in my house. Drenched in pain and sadness. A prisoner of my mind.
I'm sitting on the bathroom floor, close to my bathtub. A stare at my red leaking wrist has me thinking about everything- everything before I met Luca, Tasha and Jackson, everything before I got better.
Now here I am, back to square one. A lone tear dripping from my eyelid lands directly on the cut on my wrist and
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As we walk into school, with my wrist bandaged and my body completely covered in Luca's sweat shirt and pants. My anxiety rushes through me in full force. I start taking deep breaths, my nails digging into my palm and sweat coating my forehead. Immediately Luca notices this, he rushes me to a corner. "Hey, Hey." He says softly, "No one's looking at you, baby. Deep breaths, okay?" He watches me as I slowly breathe in and out. "There you go." "Thank you." I whisper, hugging him tightly as I cry into his broad chest. "It felt like they were staring at me, I could feel their disappointment." I say, as his hands rub my back
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We're at the ice cream parlor. And I haven't said a word since Luca left me in the middle of the hallway. "What's up with you?" Tasha asks in a small voice as she scoops out her chocolate, vanilla and strawberry mixed ice cream. "Yeah, Iris. You've been in a mood since we left school, did something happen?" Jackson asks too. And I pause as they both look at me, expecting an answer. "It's nothing." I say softly, " It's not nothing, if you're having a bad day about it." Tasha says with firm persistence while Jackson nods in agreement. I sigh, before looking around. Trying to focus on something before telling them what happened. "Luca thinks Asher is in love with me." "Well, he's not wrong babygirl. We've seen it." Jackson says, a lo
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I'm sitting on Luca's kitchen counter, bored out of my mind as he plays video games in his living room. I've been sitting here since a few hours ago, head shoved into my notebooks completing my last homework for the week while Luca would come in to check up on me, asking if I needed help or food or water. It's really cute. I walk out of the kitchen to where he's sitting before landing on his thighs with a thud. "Hey, baby. You done?" He asks, a soft smile on his face as I shuffle around straddling him, my face hidden in his neck. "Yeah." I whisper lazily, running my fingers through his soft hair. "How is your hair this soft?" I ask softly, tugging lightly on the strands. "Genes. My mother had great hair, as a kid I would always braid her hair." He replies and I smile so
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I walk into the school building alone on Monday morning, Uncle Ty is back so I had to leave Luca's apartment on Saturday morning. And Luca had things to attend to, so he couldn't pick me up this morning. I shut my locker, but suddenly a voice besid me makes me scream and I drop my books, "What the fuck dude?!" I shout at Asher as he continues to laugh boisterously at my frightened look. "I just wanted to surprise you." He says, still trying to stifle his laughter. "Well, here you go -" I point to myself, "- mission accomplished." I start to walk faster away from him, glaring at the floor when he comes to stand beside me. Why can't he just take a hint?! "Hey, sweetpea -" he nudges my arm and I turn to look at him, "- I'm sorry okay? I didn't realise I'd scare you like that." He mumbles, his
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Immediately he turns to face me as if he sensed my gaze on him, he walks to me with a grin on his face. "You made it." "Yeah. I was about to ditch you." I joke, as he tugs me to a spot under the shade of a tree with a picnic basket atop of a blanket. Suddenly, wheels start spinning in my head and I turn to look at him, "I specifically said this is not a date." He scratches the back of his head, before shrugging nonchalantly, "Well, I know you said that and I remember specifically saying that I only wanted to talk to you….but then we both had a long day at school and I felt like food and a few fruits and chocolates would...yuuno." He trails off, suddenly looking embarrassed. I look at him for a second before sighing, "I totally did not sign up for this." I grumble as I sit on the blanket.
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I look at him, trying to find words to explain things. "I can explain." Is the only clichè sentence that could come out of my mouth. He raises a brow, an amused look in his eyes for a second before his face turns cold once more. "Go ahead then. Explain." "It was just to talk about things, nothing more." I blurt out, clasping his hand in mine. "I thought I told you to stay away from him, Iris." He says irritably. "Why don't you ever listen to me, for fucks sake." " Nothing happened, I swear -" "It's not about anything happening. It's about you fucking listening to what I say for once." He snaps, looking right at me with a look I can't decipher. He did not just say that to me like I'm a child getting reprimanded by his parents. Immediately my anger
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I start to walk back home after bidding Tasha goodbye and rejecting her offer to give me a ride back home. I stop at an Ice cream store to get a chocolate popsicle, lost in my own world as I walk to my house. I sigh tiredly when I see the familiar front porch of my house. But my heart starts racing when I see a figure hunched over, sitting on my porch. A hood covering his face and a cigarette in his hands as he puffs nicotine in and out of his system. I had a feeling who this is, but I refuse to acknowledge it. Wanting to think that it's a burglar smoking on my porch before he asks me to unlock the door and finally robs us. "Hey, baby." The figure stands, a familiar voice speaking and I sigh. The rapid pounding in my heart slows down but it accelerates when I realise that Luca is actually standing in front of me, after wh
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It's Saturday, which is also the day of the fair. Luca and I are driving there, Luke and Tasha in Luke's car, Jackson and Matthew in Jackson's car while Zeek and Hunter ride in Hunter's car. I'm wearing a black leather skirt, fishnets and a black Metallica cropped t-shirt with black combat boots and a leather jacket. I look sideways at Luca - my boyfriend and check him out, my eyes trailing from his growing hair which is almost turning to a man bun, a black leather jacket almost the same as mine, black ripped jeans and a white t-shirt clinging to his torso like a second skin. "You look scrumptious tonight, baby." I breathe out, his tattoos peeking from beneath his jacket, rings on almost each finger. Yum. "I know, you look beautiful, fucking sexy." He glances at me, his idle hand coming to rest on my thigh. "So fucking se
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