I’m a freshman in high school. Everything is so new to me, and I really don’t want to mess up. I know it’s only been two months or so but...

Growing up, I never really felt settled. When my parents divorced, I spent my school days split between two houses, constantly packing...

We’d sit at the back of the bus every day after school, sharing earbuds and watching the city lights go by. On the last day of school, we...

I saved up for weeks to buy her this bracelet, just a simple thing with her birthstone. I thought she’d wear it, keep it close, but one...

We’d trade books after school, always writing little notes in the margins. After a while, I started leaving small hints about how much I...

After we’d broken up, I wanted one last conversation, some kind of closure. I called late at night, hoping she’d pick up, but it went...

We went to the arcade and spent hours competing for the highest score on a worn-out Pac-Man machine. She laughed every time I got...

I scribbled a note during lunch one day and slipped it into her locker. ‘I like you. I don’t expect you to feel the same, but I just...

We used to meet every Wednesday at the café by the library, just us and our study notes. I convinced myself it was more than a study...

Every time we’d go to the diner after school, there was this song that seemed to play without fail, and we’d roll our eyes at how cheesy...

Every Friday, he’d come over, and we’d binge-watch bad movies and eat popcorn, laughing until midnight. I thought he’d finally start to...

I wrote a letter to her on our last day of senior year, but I couldn’t bring myself to give it to her. I found it years later in an old...

I spent months dreaming of asking her to prom. I even saved up for a suit and learned to waltz, just for the chance to dance with her....

On the last day of senior year, I wrote a letter telling her all the things I could never say aloud. I folded it carefully and slipped it...

I wrote a heartfelt note in her yearbook, hoping she’d finally understand how much she meant to me. I spent ages thinking of just the...

That summer, we stayed out late, just the two of us, talking about the future. He told me he’d come visit when he went to college, that...

We hugged at graduation, and it felt like we were saying goodbye to so much more than high school. She was my best friend for years, but...

I confessed my feelings to her in a clumsy, rambling text one night. She left me on read, and I spent hours refreshing the screen, hoping...

I never got to tell her I liked her before she moved away. I watched her Instagram stories for weeks, hoping she'd post something about...

There’s a bench in the park where I used to sit with my best friend every Saturday morning, talking about everything and nothing. He...