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So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

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For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks...more

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We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proo...more

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I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn'...more

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He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got...more

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Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd...more

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Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

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He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't have anyone to be your 2 a.m. Which would kind of ...more

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But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between....more

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You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that m...more