Loveless

by Alice Oseman

Rooney had managed to bagsy an entire table for us in John’s bar, which deserved a medal, because it was heaving.

Do the kids still say 'bagsy'? I hope the kids still say 'bagsy'.

Friends are automatically classed as “less important” than romantic partners. I’d never questioned that. It was just the way the world was. I guess I’d always felt that friendship just couldn’t compete with what a partner offered, and that I’d never really experience real love until I found romance. But if that had been true, I probably wouldn’t have felt like this.