I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate

Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.