It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts wit…”

“He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends…”

“Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Pe…”

“So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood about I felt.”