I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

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

We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you.

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.

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.