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This woman controls my heartbeats. Every love lyric I sing each night is made for her. Every melody chases her heartbeat, and every chorus begs for her love. It has been brought to my attention that a few people on my management team have chosen to approach the love of my life and tell her that she wasn't good for my image. Due to her looks and the past she had no say in creating, they said she wasn't good enough. It's true, we grew up in the same town, but that didn't mean our home lives were built on the same steady foundation. I was blessed enough to never know struggle. This girl had to fight tooth and nail for everything she was given. She sacrificed her own youth, because she didn't want her little sister to go into the foster system. She gave up love, in order for me to go chase my dreams. She gives and gives in order to make others happy, because that's the person she is.

She's the most beautiful human being alive, and for anyone--especially people who are supposed to be in my corner--to say differently disgusts me to my core. I am not a robot. I hurt, I ache, I love, and I cry. And it breaks me to live in a world where I have to be afraid of showing who I really am in order to gain followers.

So if you don't like this fact--that I am not single and that I am hopelessly in love--then that's fine. If I lose fans over this, I'm okay with that. I will make every sacrifice in the world from this point on in order to give my love fully to the woman who has given more than she ever should've had to give. I love you, Haze. From the new moon to the fullest. From now until forever.

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“Such a softness fell over her as she looked my way. "Ian?"

"Yeah?"

"Drunk Hazel likes you a lot."

I snickered. "Let's work on getting sober Hazel to like me too."

"That's easy enough." She yawned in my face, not bothering to cover her mouth. "Just say hi to me sometimes, and it helps if you take off your shirt too.”
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“Grams waved off his annoyed tones. "Oh, hush, you old fart. Let kids be kids. I remember a certain boy who used to kiss me like that too."

"Who was it?" Big Paw sneered. "I'll kick his ass.”
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“She went to get to her feet and stumbled a bit, still off balance, and I caught her in my arms. She gave me a broken smile. "You're good at that."

"At what?"

"Catching me."

"Well, it would be best if you'd stop falling."

"Trust me"--she released a weighted breath--I'm trying.”
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“You are the stars," I whispered, our mouths so close that if I moved an inch in, we'd be pressed against one another's lips. Fuck, that was corny, and fuck, I didn't even care. Hazel made me want to be the corniest asshole alive. "You've been my light, my muse, my inspiration. Haze ... you are every star in the goddamn sky. You are my galaxy.”
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“Text me everything, all the things. It might take me a while to reply. But I will reply, Haze. I swear. I want to hear from you. You're kind of my compass. I don't want to lose myself in this world. You're my road map home.”
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“Confession: I miss you."

"Ian ..."

"Confession: you're my best friend."

"Please stop."

"Confession: if you gave me the chance, I'd love you until forever."

I swallowed hard as I watched him walk toward me. I was standing right in the middle of pig manure, doing the most disgusting job, looking as if I hadn't slept in days, and Ian Parker was telling me how he wanted to love me forever.

He continued on. "Confession: you are my sun, my moon, and my stars. Confession: whatever's hurting you, we can fix together. Confession: I'm never going to give up on this."

I didn't know how it happened. I didn't know how my hands found his or how our bodies became pressed together. I didn't know how his forehead fell to mine of how my heartbeats increased erratically.

I didn't know how his lips fell so close to mine or how his exhalations became my inhalations.

But there we were, seconds away from our lips locking together, and me falling into a drunkenness that I'd never be able to recover from. If I started kissing Ian, I knew I'd never be able to stop.

He was it for me.

He was the hook, the bridge, and the melody.”
Brittainy C. Cherry, The Wreckage of Us
“I was shocked that mono wasn't being spread around more due to Ian Parker and his manwhore ways.”
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“You've been a pain in my ass since you were a kid."

Not the goodbye speech I was hoping for.

"It's true." He nodded. "You've been a fucking pain in my goddamn ass. Throughout your whole childhood, you pushed my buttons. You acted out and gave me every gray hair on my head."

"Is this supposed to be an inspirational goodbye, because--"

"Just shut your hole and let me finish, all right?" he barked.

"Yes, sir."

He shifted his feet side to side before pinching the bridge of his nose. When he locked eyes with mine, he stare was filled with tears, and I swore I hadn't ever seen my grandfather cry. "I just want you to know that you got all those characteristics from me. The good, the bad, and the messed-up parts. You're a mirror of your old man, Ian, and I wouldn't want you to be anything other than who you are. So you go out to Los Angeles, and you give them fucking hell, okay? You be a pain in their ass like the damn devil you are. Push their buttons. Push the whole world's buttons until you get that dream of yours. You get that success, and you hold on tight to it. Don't you dare look back to this place until you truly need to, but when you need to look back, we'll be here waiting.”
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“The most important things in life, are worth fighting for. No matter what fear says.”
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“Ian: Big Foot is real. As is Santa Claus. You should really start believing everything you read on the internet. Like, right now there's an article going around saying I have a massive cock. Believe in that, Hazel.

Don't you worry, Ian. I have enough proof of my own on that subject.

Hazel: Massive is in the eye of the beholder.

Ian: I welcome you to behold it with your eyes when I see you again.”
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“You could learn a lot about a person based on the songs that made them cry.”
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“There's always some good in the bad parts of every story.”
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“You’re my new favorite musician.” He snickered. “I bet you say that to all the boys who throw you parties, build you she-sheds, and clean shit out of your boots.” I laughed.”
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“You know what happens when you put people into boxes?” “What?” “They break out of them, proving you wrong time and time again. I’m more than my exterior.”
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“Truthfully, animals were a lot kinder than humans,”
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“The most important things in life are worth fighting for. No matter what fear says.”
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“We have to ice your vagina."

The redness from my furious pain shot straight to a new form of redness from embarrassment as I stood up. "You're not icing my vagina, Ian Parker!"

"I'm just saying it's the best way to get the pain down, and you don't want swollen, um, you know ... lips ..." Now it was his turn to blush a little. Who knew that the playboy of the century could get shy from talking about my inflamed vagina?

"Well, if anyone's icing me down below, it's going to be me."

"No, I can definitely do it. That's what roommates are for, anyway," he joked.

I laughed in agony. "Roommates are for icing each other's private parts?"

"I mean, only the best roommates. Think of it as a roommates-with-benefits situation."

"And the benefit is holding an ice pack to my lower region?"

"Yep. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.”
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“You’re kind of my compass. I don’t want to lose myself in this world. You’re my road map home.”
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“I’m not going to let you go. We will have our forever kind of love story. The kind of love Big Paw and Grams share. I’m going to grow old with you, Hazel Stone.”
Brittainy C. Cherry, The Wreckage of Us
“The most important things in life are worth fighting for. No matter what fear”
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“I’m going to marry the hell out of that girl someday.”
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“Then there was Hazel. I’d miss every single thing about her. Even the things I had yet to discover.”
Brittainy C. Cherry, The Wreckage of Us
“You’ve been my light, my muse, my inspiration. Haze . . . you are every star in the goddamn sky. You are my galaxy.”
Brittainy C. Cherry, The Wreckage of Us
“She smiled and I loved it. Fuck, did I love it. If the only thing I could ever stare at again was Hazel Stone’s smile, I’d be the luckiest bastard alive.”
Brittainy C. Cherry, The Wreckage of Us
“To the outside world, the two of us probably seemed like polar opposites, but to me? To me, we made perfect sense.”
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“Well, shit. That makes me want to say more nice things to you to make you uncomfortable, because you’re cute as shit when you don’t know how to take a compliment. The color in your cheeks heightens, and it’s adorable.”
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“The only kind of people I really like hanging out with are fictional and live within the pages of a book.”
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“My eyes drifted closed after she felt safe enough to shut her own.”
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“As I waited, I played Shawn’s song “Perfectly Wrong” again, letting the lyrics sink into my system. Letting a part of Hazel fall into my soul. You could learn a lot about a person based on the songs that made them cry. It played on repeat a dozen times, and by the thirteenth play, my chest ached a little too.”
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