I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

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.

...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.