This Girl

You just became my sweet

It’s just that I’m madly in love with your daughter

We’re going to have to set some ground rules

But it hurts in a really good way.” I briefly kiss her again. “We thought it was hard being apart before? How the hell am I supposed to sleep after tonight? After actually getting to kiss you like this? After hearing you tell me you love me?” I kiss her again and walk her until she’s against her Jeep

Two more seconds without touching her and I. Will. Die

Life wants you to grab all the organized, the alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced. It wants you to mix it all together,
stir it up,
blend it.

Life doesn’t get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all over and be carried along

The tension was intense

Like I eventually realized . . .
That all the good things about her?
All the beautiful?
It’s not real.
It’s fake.
So you keep your ocean,
I’ll take the Lake

I wonder what your mom would have done if we had both attacked each other, right there on the bar.”