You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)

by Dustin Thao

“I don’t know . . . I’m just not very good at it. And I don’t like people watching me.”

“Well, no one’s watching us now . . .”

I never imagined my first dance would be like this, the two of us swaying outside in the school parking lot. His face is slightly dewy from the mist, and I inhale his familiar sweet scent, resting my cheek against his chest.

The paper cherry blossom. It’s tied around my wrist with a ribbon.

“I didn’t get a corsage. So I made one myself.”

If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all.

know your time with Sam was much shorter than you wanted it to be, but that time together isn’t something you can give back. Letting go isn’t about forgetting. It’s balancing moving forward with life, and looking back from time to time, remembering the people in it.”