NO PDA,school rules. And besides she's my partner dickhead." said Alex.

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.

Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.

A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.