What made her so different from the cheerleader sluts was that she, unlike them, had a strong sense of selfworth. She was proud of herself and the life that she had and had no intention of throwing herself away on someone who didn’t “deserve her, content to wait until she found that special someone who did. Toby was Krista’s complete opposite. He wasted his life sitting alone in his pitch-dark room, lying on his back and staring at the strands of white Christmas lights tacked to the ceiling. Listening to the depressing music that only made him feel worse, he smoked his bongs, his thoughts consumed by how much he hated his life. He did everything he could to escape from the harsh realities of his dead-end job and the tiny, oneroom apartment that he lived in near the campus. He had learned a
