Disgrace

g Way Down by Jason Reynold

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, and the note read

Oscar the Grouch.”

id someone hurt you?”

“Yes, no, well…they just hurt my heart.”

He moved in closer and combed a fallen curl behind my ear. “Those are the worst kinds of hurts.

The idea that broken things could still be good was a thought that would stay with me for a while.

Even when the world was dark, words in books existed. Therefore, I knew there would always be light around me even on the darkest of days.

Even when the world was dark, words in books existed. Therefore, I knew there would always be light around me even on the darkest of days.

she left, Alex smiled my way and shook his head back and forth. “What?” I asked.

“Nothing. It just looks good on you, that’s all.”

“What looks good on me?”

“Happiness.”

Sometimes, you have to disappoint people to better yourself,” he told me.

Because I know how people work. They think so little of you, and you know why?”

“Why?” she asked, her voice unsteady.

“Because you think so little of yourself. People only treat you the way you treat yourself. And I know exactly what they are going to do to you if you keep this up.” I leaned in closer to her, and our eyes stayed locked. We were so close that I felt her uneven breaths against my skin, and I was certain she felt mine. “They’re gonna bleed you out till you’re nothing, and then they’re gonna ask how you died.”