36 Noel “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” - Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters I decided to give Aspen some time. I know, that made no sense. Whenever she had time to reason things out, she decided against us. But I was banking on the fact she’d miss me. Because I sure as hell missed her. “Come on, man. You’re killing me here.” Ten reached past me where I sat at the table in our dinky kitchen with homework spread across the surface and slammed closed the textbook I was reading. “You’ve been working or doing homework all f*****g weekend. It’s driving me batty.” I sent him a glare and reopened my book, muttering under my breath because the bastard had lost my place. “I told you, I need to catch up with this s**t. Back the f**k off.” Ten slowl

