FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS OF THE CHEATER.FAKER.TROUBLEMAKER SERIES (WATTY'S 2016, FICTION AWARDS 2016, HACHETTE AUDIO 2017), JENNY ROSEN & KRISTEN MAGLONZO.
After bullies, braces, and brutal heartbreak shatters his faith in love, soon-to-be fre...
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CHAPTER 9
Elias
First Letter
5 minutes ago,
I was 26 letters away
From you.
I was a million and one
Combinations of sounds
Of ifs and maybes.
When it came to
Breaking down
The basic chemistry of,
Your name.
And even though
There are still a million
And one possibilities
And probabilities
Keeping me from
figuring out
Exactly who
I just ran into.
After everything
I've been through,
At least...
I'm 25 letters
Closer to you.
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I haven't written anything since fifth grade. Not in class, not for class, not for anybody.
And it doesn't matter how many times I've come dangerously close to failing. Or how many strings my dad's pulled to keep me in schools who've wanted to dump me in therapy. Or how many counsellors have tried to rehabilitate the resistance out of me.
I don't write.
But I used to.
Up until I was eleven, my mom thought I was gearing up to be the next Shakespeare. I wrote all over everything. Walls, drawers, floors. It didn't matter.
I scribbled poems in perfect Spanish anywhere there was space. And I didn't do it for any other reason aside from the fact that it made my mom smile.
