Stay away from her.””Okay.””Keep your hands off her.””I’ll try.”He scowled at me.”I will,” I said.

“Oof!” Adam caught me all right, with the side of his head. I could tell by the feel of his skull on my foot as I kicked him. He grabbed me the best he could...

Son,” he said, “you monkeyed up.

Taking his hand I said “Fank woo.””Hm ” he laughed with his mouth closed.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

“I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can’t get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation.” “Well, excuse me that I can’t look at him all...

Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages’ worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don’t think so,...

Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.

What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn’t he steal a car?” “He stole the driver’s ed car.”I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. “He gave it back.” “They MAKE...

The sky is not the limit

Oh, God,” Lori said without looking at me, “what are they thinking, leaving the two of us alone out here on the dock together? We might TALK or something.””That would be awful,” I said. “I...

I’m not stalking her,” I insisted.”I’m making sure she’s safe. Besides, how could you stalk Lori McGillicuddy?She’d see you and come out to your truck and say, “Hi, I’m Lori. Are you my stalker? It’s...

Aiden was gone. Like Caleb, but in a different way. I’d lost both of them.

A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart.”A!” said the crowd.”Upside down,” said Sean.The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, until it’s lights...

He sighed, then said, “So basically, you’re stalking her.””I am NOT stalking her.” I insisted.”That’s where you come in. If I followed her by myself, someone who did not understand the situation and did not...

Death isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.

Your confidence in me is heartwarming.Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin.

Stubble or what?” Eyes still closed he chuckled. “I’m not shaving until our parents let us date again.” He kissed my cheek. “What if it takes… a… while?” I asked struggling to talk. He’d made...

Let’s go,” I said.”Go where?””On Lori’s date with Parker.”Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading.”I wasn’t aware it was a double date. And you’re not my type.

You make terrible, terrible plans.” “Hey, ” I protested. “One of my plans caught you didn’t it?” “Yeah, but you meant to catch Sean.” He took his hand off my shoulder. I waved his concerns...

you’re not going to make it.

Adam thinks that you two are in an argument.”My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn’t know what Mrs. Vader meant, but my body already did. Even Sean glanced over at her with a...

Her dad turned to me. “You. Follow Me.””Woof,” I said.

Better you than Cameron ” McGillicuddy grumbled. “I know where Cameron’s been.” Sean snorted. Cameron said “I already told you I did NOT come on to Lori.

Think like a middle-aged man with OCD, a dead wife, and a teenage daughter.Think like a woman with three teenage sons who once ran a golf cart into the side of their granddad’s house.””Cameron and...

Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask”Who’s driving the boat?” Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.