"I think I finally get it."

"Get what?" There was something about the look in his eyes, the confidence, the surety, that had me swallowing hard.

"You." And as he smiled, it was almost smug. "I get you, Oz. You're a little, Aren't you?"

If only I had known at the time just how much those few little words were going to change my life.

The Little Of Oz Series

/"Talk with yourself, baby. Ask yourself what you want. Don't tell yourself what he needs or what's best for him. He's responsible for those, not you. In a relationship, it's true that in a lot of ways you put them first, but your own happiness, your own self-worth, they should never be put in front of that./"

Her words stayed with me longer than she did. A lot longer. They haunted me as I lay there staring up at the ceiling and they stayed with me as I showered and dressed.

They had me pulling out my phone and even checking that stupid fucking app that had caused so much fucking trouble in the first place. I had a message from somebody named RonanIsBae.

I hadn't posted anything but he had. He had made a post about power balance in his current relationship and I had messaged him, wondering exactly what he had meant because it had sounded oddly . . . I dunno, it was just interesting.

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