The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be, #2)

by Amber Smith

“Yeah, can you take it a little easy there?” Cameron says, and I’m about to argue with him until I realize he’s talking to Steve—for once not blaming everything on me.

Awww FINALLY

I wander back toward the school, and I don’t really know where I’m going until I’m standing there, this swath of grass between the tennis court and the student parking lot.

AHHHHHHHH :)))))

“I think you love the person you knew back then, the person you believe I can become again one day. But that’s not the same as loving me the way I am now.”

I wake up in my bed.

Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy

She spent so much of our relationship hiding her emotions because this is how she feels things—deeply, completely. That and this: she really has always cared.

One for depression, one for sleeping, and one for when I’m actively having a panic attack.

she takes that tiny breath I love so much and tilts her head up to me. Her eyes search mine for my answer. I don’t think I could speak if I tried, but I nod because whatever the question, whatever she wants, my answer is always going to be yes.

“My favorite person in the world is a little edgy and weird, herself.”

“I know how hard that was for you to say.” I shake my head. “No, it wasn’t.”

Ahh omg what the heck is this book doing to meee

“You go,” he tells him. I start to stand as well, but Coach presses down on my shoulder. “You,” he orders, through clenched teeth, “siddown.”