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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Devi tries to search his face for a reaction, tries to calculate how much she’s hurt him and if his mood might allow her to punch him in the face without him calling the cops. She might journal her findings, she thinks, save them away to mull over come nightfall, but he’s looking at her now, I mean really looking at her, like he’s just realized who she was.

    He shakes his head so slightly she might have missed it if she weren’t hyper tuned to every movement he made, and then he’s leaning in and kissing her and oh god.

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    In lost balance and chem lab kissing

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    29 Mar 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 72

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    Ben bares an unaffected grin at her, but she’s not wrong. She was pretty damn good last night, if his hazy memories were any indication. “It’s okay, Devi. You don’t have to project—I know it’s going to be difficult to stop thinking about me too.”

    Devi’s smile sours. “I am too hungover to be dealing with you right now.”

    [ alternatively: ben and devi are in college, and can't seem to stop hooking up, despite their differences. ]

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    19 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    That’s what this is, it is electric. Charged. Alight and alive, glowing in the dark. He and Devi, it seems, are like something nocturnal— they’re sharp and pointed and awake during the day, yes, but there are layers to their relationship, and it seems to Ben, that the only time they are able to peel them back is in the dark.

    Someone bumps into Devi and she crashes into him, colliding like a meteor into the Earth, and he catches her. She rights herself, still pressed against him, and there is a moment in between her looking up at him, and the song ending, that Ben is certain he is going to kiss her.

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    OR; five times Ben realizes Devi is beautiful and the one time she realizes he is beautiful, too

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    04 Nov 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    “I love you too.” Ben kisses her again. “Much more.”

    She lays a hand flat on his chest. “Don’t enter a fight you can’t win.”

    “Why not? You do it all the time.”

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    Devi and Ben during the fall of their freshman year.

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    29 Oct 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 75

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    She blinks, doesn’t let her eyes flicker down to his lips, turned up in that exact same smile she remembers from high school.

    “So, David. What do you say? Friends?”

    Devi wants to say she stops to think about it, stops to consider the implications of entering into a friendship with her high school boyfriend and the one who got away, (or was she the one who got away?) who she’s not exactly sure she’s over.

    There are some very clear lines drawn in this situation, lines that she should respect and stay safely behind, lines she should take to heart.

    But that’s the thing about her and Ben. All they do is cross all the lines.

    “Friends.”

     

    or; devi’s pretty sure you’re supposed to get over your high school boyfriend really easily. except, of course, when said boyfriend is ben gross

    (title from “a change of heart” by the 1975)

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    09 Oct 2023