Jay Asher - The Future of Us (2011)

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Yes, it feels great to plan your life when you believe everything can turn out fine. But what about when you're shown, again and again, how little control you have over anything? No matter what I do to try to fix my future, it doesn't work.

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Josh turns to me. I can't believe she's writing these things. Not she, I say. Me. Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy! Exactly, I say. I'm going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that's why my husband doesn't want to be around me.

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Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

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One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

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If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

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They were like two magnets who couldn't decide whether to attract or repel.

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You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

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Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!

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And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.

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I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

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Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

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I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.

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Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

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And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.

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I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday, he says, but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

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There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.

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