I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and forth-and-back. I realized that if I tried to focus on it too much, I got overwhelmed. So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.