Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

I want to be wherever you are.

I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.