A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to...
"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He...
"Truthfully, I can never guarantee that you won't get hurt," He is looking at me deep in the eyes. "But what I can guarantee is that in the process of protecting yourself, you will also be preventing yourself from ever feeling fully loved." Hearing me say those words, he looks like he might be thinking, with his eye...