Saving 6: Boys of Tommen

Of course I fucking liked her. She was the first thing my eyes had landed on when I walked through the entrance of Ballylaggin Community School last September, and the only face I consistently sought out since.

Think of the others

So, in your mind, it’s a dog-eat-dog world that we’re living in?”

“I don’t want fifty more girls,” I replied, twisting back to find her still watching me. “I just want that girl.”

I’ve never been a baby anything, Dar.”

Because I loved Aoife Molloy enough to force her hand with a get-out-of-jail card, even if it almost killed me to do it.

I'd been knocked down many times in my life, but the cold, hard reality of knowing that I was turning into Teddy Lynch made me contemplate staying down.

The thought only made me cry harder.

Because it was over.

It was over and I wasn’t ready for it to be.

“We’re going to have another baby,”

It never meant anything before you.”

“Aw,” she teased. “You’re a sweet slut.”