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Authors: Ellen Hopkins

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The Harder I Reach

I Turn on My Right Side

As the Meds Kick In

Plunging Toward Sleep

Me, Dismissing

I Ascend

I Think It Over

She Chooses the Latter

The Trail

Her Response

Quick! Damage Control

Hayden Melts

I Step Away

Nothing But the Truth

Traitor

We Hit Our Reservation

I Might Back Off

I Catch Her

Whoa

Our Hands Unlace

And So Does She

I Break Out

Intentional Strikes

Now She Is Sobbing

I Disconnect

Everyone Has a Breaking Point

Dad Coaxes Me

Sounds Like a Great Reason

I Arrive Home First

But What?

One More Pill

A Crash of Cymbals

It’s Dark

I Tell Him to Hang On

Three Hours Till Dawn

Somehow I Avoided

The Sky Pales

I Consider Where

Even to Me

My Omelette Arrives

I Arrive at the Range

The Two Go Off

I Guess I’m All Right

He’s So Rational

The Glock

I Trade Him

At Least, Until

Everyone Has Vacated

In Simultaneous Measure

I Decline

No Groceries

She Asks

It’s a Bittersweet Ending

It’s the Most We Say

I Do Keep

And So We Arrive

So, Yeah

Scary, and Anyway

By Saturday

Can’t Stay Here

Turns Out

File That Under

It’s Been Almost a Week

It’s Close to Six

Adrenaline

Apparently

My Good Day

She Opens Her Mouth

About the Time

Tension Bleeds

Slipping into Sleep

The Alarm

On the Way Over

It’s a Slow Afternoon

Pop?

When I Get Home

Dad Tells Me to Stop

Monday Morning

I Know That

DeLucca, Raging Jerk

I Catch Her at Lunch

Good Luck with That

She Gets the Last Word

He Says

In American Culture

Let the Discussion Begin

After School

That’s It?

I Haven’t Managed It

I Lock Myself In

Finally, I Type

When I Finish

It’s a Two Pills to Sleep

When I Turn In

As She Reads

Gasps and Whistles

When Class Breaks Up

The Dude Is Relentless

Alexa Catches Up

Something She Needs to Tell Me?

She Tells Me

I Reach Across

We Spend the Next Week

Alexa and I Do Try

We Arrive at Eight

Strange

Holly Winds Up

I Love You

The Next Morning

He Leaves Me

The Parental Element

Mom Has Come

As I Help Load

She Actually Winks

I Promise

Getting Ready for Bed

By Thursday

Somewhere in the House

Someone Knocks

Not Serious

Lorelei

Him

She Chews on That

The Buzz Intensifies

Dislike Swells

Dad Meets Us

I Follow Them

Waiting Sucks

Three Hours In

I Nudge

Before I Go on Home

Priorities

I’m Almost Surprised

When We Get to the House

Adrift

A Strange Slant of Light

I Decline the Eggs

As We Pass

Too Bad It Takes

In the Short Span of Time

She Did

When She’s Gone

All That Talking

The Whisper of a Skirt

There’s Nobody Home

We Talk

In True OCD Fashion

An Intelligent Person

He’s Wearing a Vest

Where Am I?

At Least, I Don’t Think

Time Has No Meaning

And I Ascend

Stunned

After

But Maybe Normal Is Overrated

Best of All

Near As I Can Tell

I’ve Thought and Thought

Author’s Note

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