P.S. I Still Love You

love poem before, and now it turns out it was plagiarized. A knockoff. “Don’t be pissed. I think it’s funny! Clearly he was tryi ...

with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can’t explain. ...

35 I’D WORRIED IT WOULD BE too cold for us to stay in the tree house for long, but it’s unseasonably warm, so much so that Daddy ...

“Thanks for coming.” “Do you want me to take this stuff up for you?” “Sure,” I say. John takes the bag from me and looks inside. ...

is gone. “Hi, Chrissy,” she says, smiling as she settles on the ground. “Nice hair.” Chris glares at her. “What are you even doi ...

He reaches inside the box and pulls out a baseball. “That’s mine,” Peter crows. “That’s from when I hit a home run at Claremont ...

remember she went back and forth between putting in a picture of her and Peter or the rose he gave her for her birthday. I can’t ...

I blurt out. No one says a word. “We could all put in a twenty,” John offers. I throw him a grateful look and he smiles. “Money’ ...

36 THE RULES ARE: YOUR HOUSE is a safe zone. School is a safe zone, but not the parking lot. Once you step out the door, it’s al ...

friend. That’s it!” “Gosh, she really knows how to work you, Peter!” “It’s not like that.” “It’s always like that. She pulls the ...

hair, smooth it out, to make this fight be over and in our rearview. He lifts his head; his eyes are sad and enormous. “Can we h ...

37 ON THE PHONE THAT NIGHT, Chris says, “Spill it. Who do you have?” “I’m not telling.” I’ve made this mistake in the past, tell ...

“A craft expo?” Chris is giving me a look like I’m a cockroach that flew into her car. “You would waste a wish on a craft expo?” ...

going to be?” “You don’t have to say if you don’t want,” I tell him. “I was gonna wish for tickets to a UVA football game. McCla ...

38 PETER AND I ARE ONLY talking on the phone and at school until one of us gets tagged out. It won’t be me. I’ve been super care ...

“So if you’re out, who does John have now?” Lucas asks. “Kavinsky,” Chris says. “I haven’t been able to get him because he’s alw ...

39 IT’S MY FIRST OFFICIAL FRIDAY night cocktail hour at Belleview and the night isn’t going... as well as I’d hoped. We’re alrea ...

John lowers his voice. “She was my great-grandpa’s second wife.” “My favorite of all my husbands,” Stormy says. “May he rest in ...

I have his name. “Ask her to dance,” Mr. Morales urges, grinning at me. “She wants to dance, don’t you, Lara Jean?” I shrug a sa ...

laughing so hard that Trevor started getting mad. But not you. You got on your bike and you rode all the way home and brought Tr ...