“Fuck you.” “What?” he asked, eyes blinking madly. I had never said Fuck you straight to someone’s face before.
This is a powerful moment for Jessica. She’s never said these words out loud, straight to someone’s face before. The intensity of her hatred for Marcus in this moment is as powerful as the lust she was feeling for him in the moments leading up to his confession about Hope.
Many readers were annoyed with me for not providing Jessica and Marcus with a ro-mantic climax. (Um…no pun intended?) But real life is messy, especially in adolescence. And a perfect ending would’ve undermined the whole point of the book—a book very deliberately titled SLOPPY FIRSTS.
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