I was the one who'd extinguished the light in her eyes.
"You don't really believe that 'cause if you did, you wouldn't be here with me right now," I reasoned.
"I'm here with you because..." She shook her head and took a deep breath. "I'm here with you, Ellie, because I don't know how to say no to you." She laced her fingers with mine. "The way I feel whenever I'm around you—I can't resist it. So, even if I know this is all going to end badly, I'm going to play along because I'm weak."
"Hann, please don't talk about yourself like that." I wished she could've just seen into my soul, so she would know that I wasn't lying to her. "And how come you sound so sure things will end? As long as you want me around, I'm not going anywhere." She was still eying me skeptically and I couldn't help but
