"i could pull the stars down from the sky and give them to you, and you would still find a reason to say no, wouldn't you, gemma? you would still fucking go choose him."
i felt like the world was crashing down on me. the one person i was completely...
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——— gemmaclark
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——— a few days later gemma clark <<<
"I'm going to be in bad shape tomorrow morning," I said. "Which is great, seeing that I have a flight to catch at 9 a.m."
"Well, I certainly didn't ask you to become a party girl and drink one and a half whole drinks," Shawn joked, poking fun at how much of a party girl I'm not.
"Oh shut up. Compared to my usual nothing, one and a half is quite a lot."
He smiled and shook his head.
We had just spent the night actually being social and hanging out with our friends (minus Edith, because she's literally bursting at the seams), which was a change from our usual staying home and acting like we were the only two people on earth. It was the official "Gemma Clark Birthday Extravaganza," even though it wasn't an extravaganza at all. It was still fun. Connor told me that he's never seen Shawn even close to as happy as he's been since we started dating. That made my night.
I have to leave in the morning to catch my flight back home, which I'm actually very excited about. I can't wait to see Dad and Liam again, and maybe even Aunt Kate, if she's not too busy. It's been too long. I'm very thankful for my incredible boyfriend who thought of me going back to celebrate my birthday with them. I haven't celebrated my birthday with my actual family since I turned sixteen, I think. Way too long.
I looked over at my boyfriend, who looked very attractive, as always. His hair was a little disheveled, in a perfect way, and I appreciated that he'd taken his jacket off so I could see his strong arms. Maybe I'm creepy...but if any girl was sitting where I was, they'd understand. They'd appreciate the jacket coming off as well, believe me.
I looked out the window, sensing that we were almost at my apartment.
"Okay, it's 10:32, so we have approximately two hours and twenty-eight minutes until we have to be asleep," I thought out loud.
He gave me a look. "Gem, that's way too late. Your flight's at nine, which means you have to be there by at least 7:30, which means we have to leave here at like, 6:45. You need more than six hours of sleep."
"7:30 is a little early, don't you think?"
"It's an hour and a half. You can't get there fifteen minutes before your flight and expect that to be fine, Gem. Think about your flight to New York...you got there an hour and a half early and that almost wasn't enough time."
