This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

“It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits s…”

“Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cr…”

“The first boy was always the hardest.”

“But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the …”