All the Reasons Not to

Buddy hates it. He hates how easily Chase mellows out, how quickly he forgives even if he says he won’t, and how easily he gets comfortable with Buddy being around him.How easily he trusts.And he outright despises how easily Chase can rope him into it as well. These days it’s so easy for Buddy’s cheeks to heat up from a mere touch; it’s so simple to accept the stupid chocolate; it’s ridiculously effortless to forget himself - to drop from the pedestal of a wine-sipping Villainess and turn into a kid who can barely legally drink.He hates it all. What he hates even more is how quickly Ex Libris can remind him it’s nothing but an illusion.