Sarra Manning

"Love is just this illusion that people cling to so that tehy don't have to be alone," she whispered in my ear. But i didn't believe her cause the whole time she was looking at Walker, who was laughing at something Charlie was saying, and her entire face had softened, so that she almost looked pretty.
Besides, I believe in love. And one day it will happen. I know it will. It won't be anything like the love I feel for Charlie, which always makes me feel slightly sad. It will be for someone who can love me back. Who won't be able to live without me and whose face will light up whenever I walk into the room and who'll send me text messages just to say that they are thinking about me. It will be perfect. If there wasn't that kind of love just waiting for the right moment to bring two people together, then what was the point of being alive?
I didn't tell the others that. They wouldn't have understood. Or they'd have made some snarky remarks because they don't have, like, a romantic bone between them.
Instead, no one said anything for a while. We just sat back and looked up at the stars shining brightly above us.