She Gets the Girl

“I love you too, Alex Blackwood,” she says, and it’s all the things I never knew an “I love you” could be, meeting me exactly as I am, without a single condition.
It’s coming home instead of running away.
Her hands unlock behind my neck, sliding down in between us. “Well, I guess I got the girl after all,” she says.
“See? I told you my plan would work.”
“Shut up.” She laughs and reaches out to grab the collar of my T-shirt, tugging me into another kiss.
And for once I actually do.

It was always you, Alex

And with those words, the barriers I’ve put up to shield myself from the world are finally knocked down. The boxes where I’ve locked my feelings away completely disintegrate. Until it’s just Molly and me and that force that’s been pulling me toward her since the very beginning. But neither of us is fighting it anymore.

Did you ever think we’d date?”
I open my mouth, struggling to find the right thing to say. All that comes out, though, is a single word. The truth. “Yes.”
“Do you still?” she asks, rubbing salt in the wound.
I shake my head, pulling my eyes away from hers. “You like Cora.”

“Well, I guess I got the girl after all,”

“Like I’m so in love with you, Molly Parker.”

All of it.

Leading me here.

Leading me… to her.

Some things have to fall apart because they don’t belong together, but some things belong so much they could never break.”

.
She hopes so. She wants me there in the stands.

Alex Blackwood and Molly Parker.
Not quite friends, but… maybe we’re getting there.