Never Been Kissed

“I just want to be loved. Is that too much to ask?” she cried in her journal one night.


Until middle school, she had believed that anything was possible, that all people were genuinely good, and that she mattered. As a twelve-year-old she had just begun to understand worth, thinking she could do anything and that she was worth everything. Mr. Jacuzzi Hot changed all that in a matter of minutes.