I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

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

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.