Somewhere between a friend and acquaintanceโa frequaintance, as it were.
She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love
There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
You should never wish for wishful thinking.
He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.