When I was really low, when it was all I could do not to feel sorry for myself, I played that game too. I knew I could never win, but some days, the dark days, the allure of playing ‘if only’ was too strong to resist.
Science requires us to transform into spies.
I saw your ghost in everything. I couldn’t escape you and I didn’t want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
When Calvin had first started showing an interest in me, he showered me compliments, teased me affectionately, and made little excuses to see me, all of which were flattering, but the biggest clue that he liked me was his sudden interest in taking care of me.
A guy like me could take advantage of a girl like you. Better show me what you’ve got.
He wasn’t clean lines and perfect symmetries, and I found him even more interesting for it.
She’d wanted to know that he cared about her enough to stop her doing something stupid.
Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for.
You’re the one thing I did right.
It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise. I focused on the chalkboard.
I didn’t do anything,” Scott protested. “Breaking and entering is nothing?” Detective Basso echoed. “Funny, the law disagrees.
In a matter of seconds, the world had turned into a confusing labyrinth; the truth there and not there, shifting out beneath my feet, vanishing when I tried to look it head-on.
Sunlight stretched across the Nebraska miles, burning fiery pink-gold through a bank of clouds on the horizon. It was almost sunset, and the land spread out, an expanse of never-ending cornfields broken only by the rising silhouette of a windmill or grain silo.
Tell her there’s this new club called civilization and you guys should join.
How about a... deal?” His face was bent down, shadowed, and he looked up at me through his lashes. The effect was an impression of trustworthiness. “Help me make tacos, and I’ll answer a dew of your questions.
He knew. And I wanted to know how –.
Omigosh,” I said. “Elliot broke into my house last night. It was him! He stole the article.” Since the article was in plain sight, it was obvious Elliot had torn apart.
Like someone was orbiting my world, watching from a distance.
The presence felt like ice on the skin.
Vee nearly spewed her milk. “You go to CHS?” “As of today. I just transferred from Kinghorn Prep.