It doesn’t matter how long or how much work we’d have to put in to find our way back to where we started… we would get there. We’re stuck with each other.”

Shame and embarrassment

at how petty and juvenile that sounded,

You told him to go find someone to build with.

She couldn’t be sure if that warning was really meant for their mothers or for her own damn self.

“It’s about time them two make us related for real,”

Xander tried to school his face into a neutral expression. He knew his unreasonable rage must have shown all over his face when Cole nodded his head and fixed him with a wry smile. “Yeah. I thought so.”

“You realize you’ll never know another moment of peace in your life, right?”

Just date her already and put all the poor souls to cross both y’all’s path out of their future misery.”