Falling for the Good Boy *Editing*

Chapter 39

Please play 'Don't Let Me Go' by Harry Styles Ft. Sam McCarthy for this chapter. Thank you SO much for reading FFTGB! :)

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You need to stop getting pulled into your own world and reliving memories with her. That's what they are. Memories. Start making new ones, dear.

I smiled, hoping that Blake and I would make new memories while we were off at college.

There is a boy in her life whose touch burns her skin.

Alek. I just knew this was about Alek.

As much as I hate to say it, we all know it's true. He tells her he loves her and he touches her in way that she has never been touched, but he just wants to spit poison down her throat and you need to save her. You need to pull her away from the flames that are his fingers.

She was right. Alek was trouble, I just couldn't see it. It took him hitting me to see that he was toxic.

You think that I had never noticed how you stop breathing the moment that she walks into a room? You think I haven't noticed the way that you look at her when she isn't paying attention? I've noticed dear.

Maybe Blake and I were more alike that I had thought. We both had trouble breathing around the other, we steal glances of the other when they aren't. I guess neither of us really noticed, but Millie did.

You can't let her go. You stayed with her for almost four whole months, even without hearing her voice one time. Now that's love.

I still couldn't get over the fact that Blake stayed by my side for three months and three weeks. It was utterly insane! 

You haven't felt love nearly as much as you should have in your years. She can make up for all of those years lacking the thing you never believed in until you met her.

He started to believe in love when he met me? It sounded crazy, but the only reason that I believed it was because Mildred was incredibly wise. But could I really make up for all those years when Blake had been abandoned?

You feel the need to drive her as crazy as she does to you.

True, we had to drive each other crazy. It was who we were.

She's going to tell you she loves you one day.

I did, and I wouldn't change a single thing.

I'll miss you, but I'll always love you.

Millie

P.S. Put these letters somewhere safe. Then, when you have a big fight, open the others letters. That's what Ed and I did and we lasted over half a century. I love you Blakie.

We didn't have a big fight, but we just had to know what Millie wrote to the other. I was so glad I read Blake's letter. It gave me the reassurance I didn't know I needed.

I realized that she never wrote my name. For some reason, Blake and I both knew that the letter was about me. It had to be.

"Raelene?" I looked up from the paper and I saw Blake looking up at me with tired eyes.

"Hey, sleepy head." I smiled and ran my fingers through Blakes hair.

"What'd you think of what Millie wrote me?" he lazily waved his hand at the piece of paper I was holding and I smiled as I looked at it again.

"It was wonderful."

"Not to be creepy, but I watched you read it."

I laughed and slid down so I was laying down.