“I want to be with you,” he says. “But I can’t if you won’t let me.” “Why?” I drop my bag in the driveway. “Why do you want to be with this?” I wave my arm up and down the length of my body. Immediately, I hate myself for this. The only person making this about my body is me. “Because I like you. I think I might feel a lot more than that for you, Willowdean. How is that so hard to believe?”
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“I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.”
“Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world.”
“So this is creepy,' I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand.”