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

Everything...affects everything

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

It was love because it was worth it.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

But they were wrong. There was a reason.