I don't know if I even have words for this. Since there was never a real ending I think I would like it if Edward went into treatment and they were still together because love like they had doesn't die.

What did I just read for the last three days... it was heartwrenching, amazing, and half of the time I was questioning Bella when she took Edward back EVERY TIME! But it was amazing and I applaud you and in awe because you rolled all these emotions I did not know I was capable of feeling while reading fanfic and you taught me some as well. Thank you and knowing me, I'll forget I read this in a year or so and I'll find it floating around in someone's favorites and I'll reread it again and remember the memories of how I felt reading this. So thanks for the existence of this story(:

I know that Edward is completely wrong in his actions. But Bella is a big tease. She tells him no to being his girlfriend and then throws her relationship with Garrett in his face. So she might be drug free but she is also wrong.

I have to say the suspense in this story is hard to get away from. I am always waiting for something really bad to happen. I feel bad that probably Edwards memory as a child is behind his behavior.

This story absolutely destroyed me. It was a life altering experience and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. You could move mountains with the way you write. Very impressive.

I hate to say this because Edward is my favorite but he is really in trouble.

I get a kick out of the way you have reversed Alice and Bella.

Loved every single word of this... Outstanding.
It's been a heartwrentching, enthrawling three days while I've been lost in this story, and worth every tear.

I'm in love with this story and I read it straight through over the last few days. I stayed up late to just have 'one more chapter'. I so wanted him to be at her University when she arrived, possibly clean like Vic. I wish there was more because it was so enthralling. I cried, a lot, and I am starting it over right now.
Amazing, just simply amazing.
Thank you for sharing this story. I wish you had more. Please message me and let me know if there's more of your writing to find.

I've never commented on a story before, but I just had to for this story. It was so so so brilliant. I even read it in just one day. Your story was just so heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time, and I couldn't stop crying. At first, I hated the ending. I just wanted a happily ever after, but your ending is more realistic. There's hope in the ending, and I hope that everything turns out wonderfully for Dusty and Bliss. I hope that Dusty overcomes his addiction, and that they will be happy together.

Hehe I just really needed this rant. It makes me feel a lot better. :p

Brilliant love this story, keep coming back to it to read it , I want more!

Rarely do I comment on stories but this one compels me to.
From strictly reading/writing point of view: 1) I think the story could do with some editing. I think it's far too long and repetitive. 2) Dusty and Bliss' POVs would benefit from a more significant difference between them. Using the same phrases in both POVs didn't serve to distinguish them enough. 3) The Heart's POV - outstanding.

Content: Incredibly realistic. I felt as exhausted reading it as I imagine Dusty and Bliss felt living it. Halfway through, I thought, "how the heck did it go this far?" and even went back and re-read a bit to remind myself. You did a great job of introducing elements incrementally so that it was easy to dismiss things as minor as they occurred; it was difficult to figure out exactly when a line was crossed.

Permissive parental environment from allowing the kids to curse to cursing at the kids. Permissive parental environment from allowing alcohol at a supervised underage party to knowingly allowing hard drug use in your home. Physical expressions of love from passionate kisses to abusive possession literally drawing blood. Emotional attachment from sincerely caring to withholding as punishment. From supportive girlfriend to the worst enabler. How does it happen? The way you moved the story this way was truly brilliant. It was hard for even the reader to see the sum of the parts - an emotionally and physically abusive codependent relationship in which both parties suffered terribly. Easy to see how people wrapped in it don't see it for what it is. How love and hate turn on a dime.

I don't hold out much hope for either of them. Of course Dusty was the caller at the end. One summer is not nearly enough time for them to have been apart from each other to re-establish even a healthy friendship. If there was a sequel, it would only need to say "re-read this story."

Beautiful.

Wow! that end! I can't believe!

I have never been so affected by a story than I have by Dusty. I literally was sobbing even after there was nothing left to read. Maybe because I found it so relatable. I had my own Dusty. He wasn't an addict, but the hot-and-cold, up-and-down, emotional roller coaster that was him and Bliss was all too familiar to me. I like the way this ended. Addicts don't always get the happy ending, and to just have everything turn out so easily would've been a great injustice to the story. But just like with addicts, there's always hope and that final "Hello" was hope. In my own head, I'd like to think Bliss eventually helped Dusty overcome his addiction and they had their own happy ending - whatever that may have entailed. Such an amazing story, thanks for telling it.