I have guts, just not when it counts.

“Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?”

“I have this thing that keeps me from being interested in prom dresses, it's cal…”

“Okay,” he said. “I gotta go to sleep. It’s almost one.” 
“Okay,” I said.
 “Okay…”

“It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdl…”