When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.