I wanted to stay this way forever. Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ...Lena

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.