Chapter 4

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It was getting late and I just wanted to go home to watch some Judge Judy. (You'd be surprised at how good of a show it actually is.) I mean I was having a fun time with Garrett, we went around photobombing people at one point, which made me laugh because we literally made the ugliest faces. But I was never really a Disney lover. I go like five times a year, just for Charlotte. We would go almost every month with my parents, but, well I can't keep a tradition like that when we're missing two of the most important parts.

"Oh God no, I hate roller coasters," I begged as Garrett tried dragging me on to California Screamin'. "It will be fun, I'll hold you when you get scared."
"Garrett you need to stop."
"You really don't like roller coasters do ya?"
"No, Garrett that's not what I mean."
"What are you talking about?"
"You keep flirting with me uncontrollably. At first I thought it was cute, but now it's making me uncomfortable. Like what was that back there when your fans thought I was your girlfriend. 'I think she is too.' What the hell was that?!"
"I'm not allowed to flirt with pretty girls?"
"There you go again. I'm not stupid, I have noticed everything about you when you flirt. Your half smile is a winner, but really, do you have to raise your eyebrows? "
"All I heard was, 'I have noticed everything about you and your half smile is a winner."
"I like you, I really do, but I don't have the time for any of this. I don't even know what I'm doing here. I try taking Charlotte to spend the day with me, and I'm not even spending it with her. But you, you come along with your boyish charm and nowI'm here with you, and the only thing you're doing is pissing me off right now. "
"I like you too," he says as he pulls me close to him.
"Garrett, tell me you're not going to kiss me."
"I'm a gentleman at heart Taylor. If you say 'don't kiss me' I won't kiss you. But if you tell me not to like you, I'm sorry, but feelings are feelings and I just can't help feeling the way I feel about you." And like that, we just stood there, close to each other.


"They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other."
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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