Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.