He's alright. Or something. He made my sister happy once, and he's still a good friend to her, and he doesn't mess with what she's got with AJ. Who I like a lot better with Julia. If she's going to stick with someone for the long run, better him than the guy who I don't think has a problem with dying ( Read more... )

I'm not going to waste my time pretending that he followed me home, Sam wouldn't buy it anyway. I'm going to tell him the truth. I was on my way back from Dante and Jeremy's when I turned a corner and heard noise coming from an alley. I thought it was a person, so I looked and found an injured puppy.

I healed him right away, and I'm only a little ( Read more... )

Sam was thankful when he woke up that morning to see the rain from yesterday had stopped. The level of cliche was almost twice as depressing as the moods it was invoking in everyone that was going to be there today. He knew Ryan would want something better than that, even though he couldn't remember a time the five of them had ever discussed such ( Read more... )

"Dude, no way."

"Yes way."

"I side with Madsen on this. No way. No way in hell."

"Sam's right." Those two words sort of totally kill me to say. Not because of what I'm saying, but why I'm saying them. Guys like me are not supposed to agree with guys like Sam on stuff like this ( Read more... )

Mommy won't talk about it, but she says that he has to go away with Uncle Madsen and Uncle Johnny for a couple of days ( Read more... )

I don't want to go out there ( Read more... )

Note: It all starts here.He was tired. He'd already put this off for as long as he could. If he called too late, chances are they'd all be doing something, and he'd have to put it off when he'd already told Ryan's family that they'd be there in three days ( Read more... )

She doesn't like it. I know that. I don't like that she doesn't like it. I still haven't stopped feeling guilty for what I got Carly to do, and I know on some level, while it's still right, it's wrong too ( Read more... )

"I give up ( Read more... )

Now that we've explained to Junior and Julia that I'm not going to go slaying anymore, there's one more person I have to tell before I can start trying to casually work it into conversation with everyone else. Arianna. And I thought about asking her and Dan to come, but I know she'll tell him the minute she gets home, so that isn't necessary. He'll ( Read more... )