You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.