Take Me with You When You Go

by David Levithan

“I’m all alone.” “No, you’re not,” Terrence replied. And that was it. That was what I needed, to feel that there was someone else who remained.

The trouble with worrying so much is that sometimes you worry something into coming true.

I can sleep during the day and stay up all night. You know how I love night. The darkness. The stars. Houses all lit up inside. Everything is clean and quiet and peaceful in the dark. You can’t see all the dirt and the trash and the scars everywhere, on everything, on everybody. So many scars. Night is clean. Night is safe. So I stay awake and pretend this is what the world looks like all the time.