They’d been together, officially so, nearly a year now. Well, the year would be in April, but still. It was nearly a year, and a year…was a while. At least in Gabriel’s book it was a while. Especially considering who he was with, and how he had for the longest of times assumed that he wouldn’t be interested. If anything, he’d told himself, he’s ( Read more... )

Winona told me that I had to be romantic with you.

I've been thinking, and...would you like to have dinner or something? Nothing more, just dinner. And like, we could watch a movie or something later? Or if you want to talk about...you know, stuff, then we can.

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Come and see me, old man. I need my silver fox.

Gabriel had been intending to only get one. Really, he had. A companion for a friend who seemed to need one, but then they were all there, and sweet, and when he'd picked out the one, the only one, he was going to get, they started crying. And it started to cry. And he didn't know what to do. The person selling them said that they always did that, ( Read more... )

Back in the old days it was normal for care packages to be sent to the countries soldiers and naval crew. A treat for them; something to make them smile as they were lonesome at sea or in the desert. Packages were sent without knowing who would be getting them, the senders simply marking them with whatever they felt like, the Captain, the youngest ( Read more... )

So, I know you've got Jo, but she should be sleeping by now...do you think you could sneak away for a half hour?

You know, whenever you're sassy, I always feel like I should be bending you over my knee.

7 times you wish you could turn back time and do things differently.1. Deciding to not go to college so I could stay home to take care of Mom. I got accepted to the college of my dreams, Stanford, and their engineering program. I know I did the right thing, since I couldn’t really leave her since she’d just had a heart attack, but I still wish that ( Read more... )

2. "Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down." - Bede JarrettHe’d never been one to talk about his own feelings. Remnants of the ‘children should be seen and not heard’ idiom he’d grown up with that had accompanied him into his adult life. Though it wasn’t something that was made obvious at ( Read more... )

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