It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

All you really have... is now.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.