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mannnnn the ending was sad and wistful. It’s sad to realize that our chaotic, messy high school life is just a chapter we will eventually forget and move on from. Nevertheless, it will always remain the best part of our lives, no matter how heartbreaking or embarrassing it was.

yeah having an archnemesis in high school is so iconic

yeah i already thought hes dead T_T just like one of those feel good movies with dramatic plot twist to make it memorable T_T


alexa pls play a possibility

gracie heartbroken from october to december


you may not figure it out today but someday you would \\\
I did end up being less of a pubescent mess. What Beth had said was kind of true—you start to figure things out.

grown up adults brushing all their problems under the rug to avoid unnecessary drama and tension. thats so fucked up. why do adults do this. why dont they just confront whats the issue in front of them.

why do adults always act so civil and polite to each other instead of patching things up it's so annoying

happily ever after does not exist you cant just easily drive into the sunset that easy and that will solve all the problems.

you can't forever live in a bubble of fantasy. whether you like it or not, sometimes the truth is harsh and you must live with it. gracie's family is fucked up and so is wade's.

who are we but a manifestation of habits and attitudes of our parents we unwillingly inherit

This was messy, just like any teenage formative/transformative year. Gracie's unique voice is already a selling point of this book


oh nooo this anger management of wade. he got it from his father who is violent af huhu it runs in the blood after all. whether we like it or not, we get our attitude from the way we are brought up and the way our parents behave.

gracie has a strong voice in this book and i was looking forward for a more grand and fun rollercoaster ride. not this swing which stopped immediately before you know it.

it's already coming to an end but it still feels anticlimactic? sure gracie learned to love herself and had this lightbulb moment with beth of how unique and brave she is for putting herself all through shit just to experience things. that not cool girls are cool, sometimes theyre just boring too. but i dont know the second half felt flat to me.

the 2nd half dragged a bit. i enjoyed the 1st half bc of the teenage romance and all the sexuality stuff. but now gracie and wade are constantly moping around with their broken hearts that im fed up of it.

the 2nd half dragged a bit. i enjoyed the 1st half bc of the teenage romance and all the sexuality stuff. but now gracie and wade are constantly moping around with their broken hearts that im fed up of it.

awww heartbreak can make you feel numb huhu

what if beth told the school about derek and gracie huhu what if shes a bad influence to her

wade and his being violent and anger management

gracie's sexual awakening


it felt like gracie's family woes is a backstory as it does not permeate as it should throughout the story

hahaha lmao 48%

love be hitting us out of the blue

love should feel like ease and comfort and bringing out the authentic you


im inluv with the shape of u


yeah it's bad news when you barely know anything about the guy. it's basically a walking red flag juhu


what if wade and beth also had a thing 😭😭

oh mygoddd slow burnnn romanceee

once youre inlove theres no going back 🥹🥹 you start noticing every little thing that you dont pay attention to before


I could only hope he was acting half as psychotic as I was.

oh high school young love

It was what I had expected a kiss to be all along. Even the bell in the background added to the moment, supplying a soundtrack of urgency that made me dig my fingertips into Wade’s arms. I could feel my stomach become light and unsteady as it began to register the weightlessness of the moment—like being flung through the air and my stomach trying to keep up.

- I recently had this realization as well. That we human beings are multilayered and have contradicting emotions and beliefs and it just made me sad altogether


top-of-the-food-chain senior girls lmao

yes ariana is right god is a woman uwu

hoping derek will not slutshame her bc gracie is finally kind and social and flirty. getting slutshamed will just cancel all her progress


It was a humbling thought. We were all human beings, terribly intertwined in each other’s lives. Everything I did potentially set off a chain reaction of events that could end up at someone else’s doorstep.

dont tell me he will cheat on wade aaahhh yeah he seems like a bad boy but dont listen to beth graceee

Nothing was fully working out. I couldn’t concentrate with the massive amounts of time I suddenly had on my hands.

same gurl im not able to fully utilize my summer days propery


when loving someone there should be
no inhibitions


what if wade is not a good guy at all huhu

oh gracie is still a love cynic

oh young love and puppy crush

the slow simmering of gracie and wade's love

to the point that gracie now cannot live without him ohmygod love is truly fucked up

how someone can infiltrate your everday life and you will never be the same again without him

im still curious what is wade's backstory. is he really a bully or just a victim pretending to be tough

I hated being forced to listen to music that other people liked. They always waited so expectantly for you to be blown away

same girl same ahahah

gracie's wall finally crumbling yay!



You could cry at home in your bedroom with your mom downstairs in the kitchen making a casserole, but you had better not let your guard down at school.

this is why i dont like the idea of dormitories bc how the hell am i supposed to have alone time?! and never let my guard down? wth

oh my god gracie is just like her mom. falling in love with much older men. it runs in the blood after all

trauma dumping wade omg ahaha

once in our lives we are a bitch to someone

a vivid storytelling of the chaotic and depressive high school life

dont you just envy effortlessly pretty people like beth huhu

ugh im so jealous too of graceful ppl the way they move and talk just screams sophistication


this is so sour coded

pretty isnt pretty enough anyway

They made being alive look so easy. They had their idols, and their lyrics to sing along to, and their adorable emotions to feel.

boarding school must be a living hell for gracie

this is giving love is for losers lol

Too many people. It was loud and jumbled in the room, full of motion and animalistic energy born out of pubescent ennui.

when youre a people hater lmao ahaha

cynical

lmao unwanted social interactions are indeed the worst 😹😹😹

woaahhh multiverse but make it cheating ahaha

you gotta get the best of multiverse by cheating lol

Whatever the reasons for my parents’ longevity as lovers, my mother and I were his alternate universe, coexisting with his dominant universe, side by side

delulu me thinking my crush likes me back

And yeah, I wasn’t an idiot—I knew they were all small things that could have easily been dismissed as nothing, but the whole point was to look at the bigger picture. All you had to do was connect the dot

i resonate with gracie ahaha i too had a crush on my teacher when i was in kinder ahahah