The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.