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Chapter Thirty Nine
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2024-10-29 19:42:56If anyone were to ask how it felt around Drey, I’d always say butterflies. Like a rumbling feeling in your stomach that you’d feed on over and over again just because it feels nice to feel that way whenever you see someone.
Or that ecstatic feeling of weird heartburn, or probably just a heart attack waiting to occur.
It was all that.
And I was also at the point where even when I was avoiding him, just feeling his presence made my heart jump and butterflies start to flutter inside me—as if trying to find validation just so I could feel it over and over again.
But it was different with Drey. He’s tranquility… the one you won’t even be afraid of confiding to because you feel safe whenever you’re around them. It’s a different kind of safety that I only feel whenever I’m with him.
I never felt like I had to prove myself to him because it feels like he just always gets me… even with the slight
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