Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

And then she told me she didn’t want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

How did you know??? I'm Erin. I know all. ;)

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.