Breaking Boys 12

"After him, there was the boy who I pursued relentlessly, who had lived around the corner from me my whole life. He was the boy who had pursued me earlier in life, when I was fifteen and beautiful; writing letters and leaving flowers at my front door. He was the boy I went back home for; the first boy I went crazy for, the first boy who rejected me.

The boy from around the corner was the boy who cried love, but he was also the boy who showed me that what you feel for someone, even if those feelings are strong, isn't always love. He was the boy who told me to go back home, whom I cried over, for whatever reason. He was the boy who I clung to because I couldn't stand the thought of being alone, of being wrong, or of regretting my decision to leave Brandon. But he was the boy who forced me to look at myself. And after I did, I found a strange comfort in the aloneness and a realization that you can take action, that you don't have to live with regret. So I acted...."