This was a new skill she’d acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Her head had turned quickly away…Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

All friends have secrets. We’re like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there’s some secrets we don’t even reveal to ourselves.

I was finally tired of hiding behind bravado. My family had hurt me so many times that I had started to lie about my feelings to everyone. To Sarah. To Maddie. To Ethan. And to...

She’s been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.

The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.You were alone, you always will be.But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And...