“You've got to be kidding me...”
Rolling his eyes he scoffed “just say yes. I know you need the money.”
He wasn't wrong there, but I had a feeling I was going to regret this.

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Deidra wanted to have a normal college experience just like everyone else, but the last thing she had anticipated was her fourth grade bully to come running back into her life asking her for help. Inheritance clauses, last-minute wills, and a free ticket for her undergrad years to be paid in full?
What more was there to say, except that Wes wasn’t someone easy to work with.
He was more likely going to be more trouble than the money is worth.

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It Had to Be You

“Hello…? Wes…? Did you butt dial me? Really, dude…today of all days?”


Perhaps it was a bad idea to talk to her while my brain was turned into putty and oozed out of every open orifice on my face. But, the moment I heard her sleep-addled voice, it felt like the overcast of all my troubled thoughts had parted and hope had managed to crack in sunshine bright. The freak squall I carried in me ever since the crash lessened to a harrowed whimper, and it felt good.


More than good actually. It felt…right.


Maybe that was selfish of me. Maybe it wasn’t. Who could blame me really? To not be so cold to everything. Numb with my fingers aching from holding on so tight or else risk fading away.


Chapter 25 : Good Men & Good Ideas