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the human race has caused enough damage in the name of religion.
Ignorance is unacceptable.
What she doesn’t realize is that smaller schools also make it easier to stand out.
The thing is, forbidding teenagers to dabble in anything supernatural only guarantees that they will.
Despite taking two Excedrin Migraine pills, a headache pierces my left temple.
What I really want is to throw off my headache and my painful shyness and join in the laughter and fun. What I really want, more than anything, is to be a part of this group.
fear is irrational.
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This is why Pete has always been popular. He really doesn’t care.
I take a deep breath, as if the key to confidence is an extra dose of oxygen.
Anything is possible.
Who lets their hormonally-charged fifteen-year-old son spend unsupervised hours in his room with an older, more experienced girl?
Like his muscles come from practical use rather than pumping iron in a weight room.
the boys trying to figure out if I’m dating material, the girls trying to figure out if I’m a threat.
In the middle of his peeling, his eyes snap up, just like in ceramics, and for the second time in one day, he catches me watching him. I duck my head. Ugh. Could I be any more of a creeper?
I bolt upright in bed, chest heaving, cold sweat trickling down my back as hazy morning light squeezes itself between the cracks in my blinds.
Isn’t killing killers”—he finger-quotes the word—“a little ironic?”
A Filipino boy—Max, I think?—who always wears a black leather jacket breaks the silence first.
Forget religion, picking partners should be outlawed. So should captains in gym class.
My stomach drops in that way it does whenever I accidentally skip the bottom stair.
My stomach breaks out in a round of impromptu somersaults. And in the middle of the gymnastics routine, a groan escapes.
Why do guys always go for the pretty face and the lithe body, oblivious to the ugliness inside?
“Freaky is the new sexy, if you ask me.”
I don’t want to feel. I need the protection from feeling. I’m not sure I can handle any of it.
This is why I don't want to feel.
In a world where God does not exist, where science has done everything to systematically remove any sort of deity from society, does she turn to one anyway? Despite all its answers and logic, science offers no comfort, no hope. Not at times like these.
“Listen, Tess. The past is the past. It’s done. It’s over. It only has power if you let it keep you from making the right choice in the present.”
As soon as I step inside the building, Luka is there. He grabs my face between his hands and kisses me. Full on the mouth.
