People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.
It was love because it was worth it.
I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.
It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.