I used to believe in one rule. Save yourself. Don't trust. Don't depend. Don't need-because the second you do, it gets taken from you. I learned that young. I learned it the hard way. And I was good at it. I kept my head down. I said the right things. I didn't make problems I can't fix, and I didn't get attached to people who come with warnings written all over them. It was easier that way. Safer. Then Joey Lynch happens. And suddenly I'm not careful anymore. I'm running barefoot through streets I shouldn't be in. I'm letting him see parts of me I've spent years hiding. I'm standing in front of him, heart in my throat, trying to figure out why he looks at me like I'm something worth saving-when he won't even save himself. He pushes me away like it's instinct. I follow him like it's mine. We don't talk about what this is. We don't put names on it. We don't even try to pretend it's normal. Because it's not. It's messy and reckless and too intense for something that was never supposed to matter this much. But the worst part? I don't want to stop. Even if it breaks me. Even if it destroys him. Even if, somewhere along the line, I forget how to be the girl who always survives.

"𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈'𝐦 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮..." Edel Kavanagh x John Kavanagh BOYS OF TOMMEN FIC Runaway 15 Edel has been living in Dublin most of her life. Dragged from pillar-to-post, no one seems to want her, including her own parents. Edel hops on a train with a one-way ticket to Ballylaggin, Cork, where she meets someone who really does want her. The boy who she never realized would change her life forever. John has everything going for him. Star of the rugby team at Tommen private, John is a straight A student and already wealthy enough. He seems to have his life in order, except when a lonely girl lands in her driveway one evening. John claims to hate her, but really, he'd do anything in his power to protect her. CONTAINS THEMES OF: self harm, suicide, rape/sexual assault, drinking, drugs. #1 edelkavanagh xxxxx