Forum: The Road Out
10-07-2025, 12:20 AM
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Forum: The Road Out
10-06-2025, 11:47 PM
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Forum: The Road Out
10-06-2025, 11:16 PM
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Replies: 48
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Forum: The Road Out
10-06-2025, 10:12 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 42,399
Ellie’s smile tilted, slow and wicked, as his...
Ellie’s smile tilted, slow and wicked, as his words brushed against her skin. Her fingers stayed at the back of his neck, nails grazing lightly over his hairline, feeling the tremor under his skin...
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Forum: The Road Out
10-06-2025, 08:41 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 42,399
Ellie couldn’t stop smiling — not the polite...
Ellie couldn’t stop smiling — not the polite kind, not the small, shy curve she used when she was pretending not to care — but the real kind. The kind that tugged at her cheeks and made her eyes...
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Forum: The Road Out
10-06-2025, 04:16 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 42,399
Ellie’s laugh came out softer than she meant it...
Ellie’s laugh came out softer than she meant it to — the kind that started in her throat but slipped out anyway, all nervous spark and sugar. She tilted her head up at him, eyes catching his in the...
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Forum: The Road Out
10-05-2025, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 42,399
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Forum: The Road Out
10-05-2025, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 42,399
Ellie tried to play it cool.
Tried being the...
Ellie tried to play it cool.
Tried being the operative word.
Because the second he said wrecked — in that low, ruined tone that landed somewhere between a confession and a challenge — her whole...
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Forum: The Road Out
10-02-2025, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 42,399
The bar was loud — bodies pressed in too close,...
The bar was loud — bodies pressed in too close, neon lights bouncing off half-empty pitchers of beer, victory laughter echoing over the din. Tyler’s buddies were sprawled around the table like kings...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
07-01-2025, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
Ellie didn’t blink.
Didn’t smirk.
Didn’t...
Ellie didn’t blink.
Didn’t smirk.
Didn’t sass.
Not this time.
Because something about the way he said it — the look in his eyes, the confidence wrapped in affection, the way his arm...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
07-01-2025, 01:02 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
Ellie stared after him.
Mouth parted. Brain...
Ellie stared after him.
Mouth parted. Brain officially fried. Hotdog grease on her fingers and sin in her bloodstream.
Because what the hell was that.
She’d stolen one (1) bite. One. And...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-30-2025, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
Ellie didn’t answer right away.
Mostly...
Ellie didn’t answer right away.
Mostly because she was busy pretending not to melt.
He’d done nothing—just nudged her knee and said “I meant it” like it wasn’t the most devastating sentence...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-30-2025, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
Ellie just stared at him for a second.
Not...
Ellie just stared at him for a second.
Not because she didn’t have a comeback (please—she was built for this), but because, honestly? She needed a full moment of silence to recover from being...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-30-2025, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
She didn’t say anything at first.
Mostly...
She didn’t say anything at first.
Mostly because her brain had short-circuited somewhere around sweetheart and hadn’t fully recovered from the hay bale imagery or the fact that he just took her...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-29-2025, 10:22 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
She didn’t stop walking.
Not right away.
...
She didn’t stop walking.
Not right away.
She let it hang there — that kiss, that line, that dumb little compass metaphor that would haunt her in the best way until the end of time — and just...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-29-2025, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
Ellie just stared at him for a second.
Not...
Ellie just stared at him for a second.
Not because she didn’t believe him — God, she did, more than he probably knew — but because he said it like it might undo something. Like honesty was...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-29-2025, 04:28 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
She saw it.
Not just the smile. Not just the...
She saw it.
Not just the smile. Not just the joke. But the way he gripped that lemonade like it might keep him from falling apart. The way he looked at her — then looked away — like the weight of...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-28-2025, 11:19 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
He said it like it hurt.
Not in a bad way,...
He said it like it hurt.
Not in a bad way, but in that kind of cracked-open, chest-bare, look-at-me-anyway kind of way. And God, Ellie felt it.
Felt him.
Right down to the way his voice...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-28-2025, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
She was beaming.
Not just because she had...
She was beaming.
Not just because she had glitter on her temples and three tiny gold stars still drying above her left eyebrow — though, obviously, that helped — but because she knew she’d wrecked...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-28-2025, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-28-2025, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
She could feel him watching her.
Not the...
She could feel him watching her.
Not the casual kind of watching — not the “oh cute, you picked the fairy one” kind of teasing she expected — but the kind that made her skin warm in places the sun...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-28-2025, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
Ellie...
Ellie (https://i.ibb.co/BHsN8vht/8-CC88623-8-E40-4684-8-D99-6-D2622-F22915.png) didn’t look back when she tugged him toward the booth.
She didn’t have to.
She could feel him — solid and warm...
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Forum: Evergreen 4th of July Festival
06-28-2025, 01:31 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 41,089
The inside of the truck smelled like vanilla,...
The inside of the truck smelled like vanilla, burnt caramel, and panic.
Ellie (https://i.ibb.co/CpchX6km/D863-BD65-BBC3-4637-8911-56-C9-EA7-A9-BFA.png) swiped the back of her hand across her...
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Forum: Residential
06-02-2025, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 120
Views: 100,289
Ellie felt him everywhere.
Not just in the...
Ellie felt him everywhere.
Not just in the weight of his body above hers or the way their skin met in heat and rhythm—but in the way he looked at her. Like she was something holy. Like every...
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Forum: Residential
06-01-2025, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 120
Views: 100,289
Ellie didn’t speak right away.
Couldn’t.
...
Ellie didn’t speak right away.
Couldn’t.
Her mouth was still parted from the kiss, her breath catching in her throat, not because she was winded—but because she’d never felt more alive. Or more...
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