Simone Elkeles

...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

Alex and Carlos__he tag team from hell. They__e the last people I need shit from right now. If they decide to trail me, too, I__l have an entire entourage.____ fine.___hen sit up and talk to us.___kay, in that case I__ not fine. Go away._ I moan. __nless you want me to puke all over you.

I give her the only honest and true answer I have."You're where I want to be.

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow.""A back rub is harmless."My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more.

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

Maggie squeezes my hand. It__ a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?""You're beautiful.

Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

He__ my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little annoying mini-Alexes and mini-Brittanys running around in the future

Nice girl. Wears too much makeup.""Most chicks hate her.""Most chicks wish they looked like her. And they wish they had her money and boyfriend."I stop and regard her in disgust. "Burro Face?""Oh, please, Alex. Colin Adams is cute, he's the captain of the football team and Fairfield's hero. You're like Danny Zuko in Grease. You smoke, you're in a gang, and you've dated the hottest bad girls around. Brittany is like Sandy ... a Sandy who'll never show up to school in a black leather jacket with a ciggie hangin' from her mouth. Give up the fantasy.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie.

Marry me, Kiara,_ he blurts out in front of everyone.__hy?_ she asks, challenging him.__ecause I love you,_ he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, __nd I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein_ your face every mornin_, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I__ be six feet under _ and because I love your family like they__e my own _ and because you__e my best friend and I want to grow old with you._ He starts tearing up, and it__ shocking because I__e never seen him cry. __arry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin_ about was comin_ back here and makin_ you my wife. Say yes, chica.

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.