The Rest of the Story

by Sarah Dessen

After loving someone you couldn’t depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.

But all my life I’d felt more like an observer than an active participant. Beside the wheel, not behind. It was safer there, but could be lonely too, or so I was now realizing. Maybe there was a middle ground between living too hard and living at all. Maybe, here, I was finding it.