
๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐จ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ has a fresh new look! Have you read it? You can buy it on SALE for $1.99 for a limited time only!
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๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ธ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ–๐ฐ๐ง–๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ.
Quarterback.
Class president.
Burnout.
We all have our identities.
Most of the time, they come from our circumstances. Theyโre made by othersโshoes for us to walk in whether they fit or not.
But what if?
What if we could take off those shoes?
What if we could wear a different pair?
What if those boxes we put ourselves in are betterโฆworse?
And what if, when we doโฆweโre trapped there for good?
They all call me Cowboy.
Sheโs the damsel who doesnโt need to be rescued.
And himโฆheโs the villain.
This is our story. And this is how we want it to be told.
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We arrive at our exit, and I reach across his lap for my sweatshirt. He bats my hand away.
โYou leave that here. Weโll get you something different to wear and be seen in.โ
I dart my eyes up to meet his. I get it. Heโs right. The women saw me in the blue.
โOkay.โ I nod and step into the aisle. He moves in close behind me, holding his hands at my hips as we walk down the narrow pathway together.
โSmile,โ he whispers over my shoulder.
I do as he says, and he laughs into the back of my neck. Weโre two seventeen-year-old kids out for a fun date, and thatโs it. Any glares we get as we walk off the bus are innocuous, so I play the part of carefree girl with a crush until we arrive in the thick of the early evening crowds at the mall.
I tense at the sight of a security guard, and this time he genuinely laughs at me.
โRelax, those arenโt real cops,โ he says, leaning in close to me.
His hand takes mine again, but this time not as part of the act or out of panic. This is just him wanting to hold it, a natural movement that I feel heโs done dozensโhundredsโof times before. I wait until we get to the coat section of the department store across the street from the hospital, and I stop him.
โItโs about to snow outside. Iโll need something,โ I say. I hold our hands up when I talk, and I nod toward them.
โItโs weird, isnโt it?โ His thumb makes the familiar stroke along my wrist. I glance to it and nod.
โIt is,โ I say.