P.S. I Still Love You

Humming, he pours himself a glass of water and says, “I should go to the symphony more often. Any interest, Lara Jean?” “Um... m ...

18 WHEN KITTY WAS BORN, I said she looked like a kitten and not a Katherine, so that’s the name that stuck. After we came home f ...

Usually a potato in some form as the side. Tonight I’ve mashed sweet potatoes and sprinkled brown sugar and cinnamon on top, the ...

“So what if it is? They’d be a good match.” Huh! “What makes you say that?” Kitty ticks off her fingers. “She loves animals, she ...

tortoiseshell bow in my hair and checking it out in the mirror. “She also complimented my snickerdoodles a lot, which I apprecia ...

19 THE NEXT TIME MARGOT AND I video-chat, I break the news to her. She’s sitting at her desk, wearing a Fair Isle sweater, light ...

think of him being lonely... and the way Kitty’s so bent on setting him up with Ms. Rothschild, it makes me think she’s longing ...

20 “DON’T STAND IN FRONT OF the tv,” Kitty snaps. I’m dusting the bookshelves with a new feather duster that I ordered online. I ...

21 “TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR young man,” Stormy says. We’re sitting cross-legged on her floor, setting aside pictures and memento ...

Stormy leans in close and says, “Lara Jean, just remember, the girl must always be the one to control how far things go. Boys th ...

22 PETER AND I ARE AT Starbucks, sitting side by side, studying for our chemistry exam. Idly, he puts his arm around my chair an ...

23 I’M PUSHING MY GROCERY CART around, looking for condensed milk for key lime pie, when I spot Josh in the cereal aisle. I roll ...

24 THE SONG GIRLS TAKE VALENTINE making very seriously. A valentine is humble and sweet and sincere in its old-fashionedness, an ...

I beam at her. “Attagirl!” So maybe she’s got a little bit of me in her after all. Kitty continues. “We could put red food color ...

25 THE NIGHT BEFORE VALENTINE’S DAY, I get it in my head that my card for Peter isn’t enough and cherry turnovers would be a fan ...

Of beautiful Lara Jean. And stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of beautiful Lara Jean. I touch my hand to my lips. Beau ...

Her mother had to remind her to let the other girls hold it. That’s how I feel. When Kitty asks to try it on, I hesitate for a t ...

26 JUST WHEN I THOUGHT THE hot-tub-video ordeal was well and truly over with, another version pops up and reminds me that this p ...

“I don’t need you to,” I say, and I realize as I say it that it’s true. I’m coping on my own just fine. He stares straight ahead ...

want to push too hard. I always try to think about what your mom would do if she were here. I know it’s not easy, only having a ...