Love and Leftovers电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Part One - DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE

My Family’s Summerhouse

The Breakup

Long Shot

An Explanation

Lonely

Since the Breakup

Saturday at the Laundromat

Every Time Dad Calls and Mom Answers

I Want to Ask Dad Questions Too

The First Day of School

The Second Day of School

Talk about Accents

The Teachers Hate

“Martha Iris?”

I Know I Shouldn’t Put People in Boxes

Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 1:

Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 2:

Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 3:

Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 4:

Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 5:

Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 6:

When My Mother Takes an Ambien

The Worst Thing I Have Ever Done

The Best Thing Linus Ever Did

Driver’s License Daydreams

The Boat

I Don’t Like Lobster Anyway

Dominoes

Half-and-Half

Oyster River High School

The Leftover Lovers YouTube Performance #1

I Know I Like Him

A Feeling Like Falling

If Only We Could Be Together

America Runs on Dunkin’

Give Me a Break, Sam

Talking to Linus Is Depressing

BFF

HOME Is a Four-Letter Word

September 14–11:45 P.M.

Speaking of Good-Looking Guys

Thank God for Football

I Don’t Have a Dress to Wear

The Perfect Dress

J.D. Picks Me Up

Homecoming at OR

October 5–11:54 P.M.

I Close Mom’s Computer

Middle-of-the-Night Daydreams

Dinner

When I Was Little

When Dad Calls and I Answer

“You Cut Your Hair?”

Hairapy

Until

Family Hairstory

My Relatives Are Like Grapes on a Vine

Money

The Conversation

October 11–11:30 P.M.

Student Housing

A Bath at Last

I’ll Be Brief

Closing Camp

Bedtime

The Leftover Lovers YouTube Performance #2

What I Want to Do

A Package from Katie

October 27–12:02 A.M.

No One to Clink Glasses With

Katie Rants on the Phone

Regret

Frat Boys

Clothes

I Love Pizza

Motherly Advice for the Teenage Soul

Treats

Insight

My Birthday

Birthday Presents

At 3:20 That Afternoon Everyone Remembers

More Birthday Presents

Three Gifts Are in Blue-and-White Priority Mail Boxes

After Greta and Arthur Kiss Me Good Night

My Wish

After the Guests Have Gone

Kissing J.D.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow

I Inherited It

Would He Tell Me?

Procrastination

Maybe

The End

I Told My Mother

Now

The Next Best Thing to a Security Blanket

Morning

Peeking from Behind My Locker Door

I Take the Cup of Coffee

My Sweaters Arrive Parcel Post

I Open the Envelope Dad Sent

I Crumple It Up

Back to the Boxes

I Explain

Lambasted

Katie, You Don’t Understand

It Was Dumb. I Know.

What Best Friends Are For

Trapped

Home from School (Almost)

Change Is Good

I Try Making Friends

A Silent Thank-you Note

November 18–11:33 P.M.

Questions

Chasing Boys

Answering Machine Message from Linus

Baking Pies for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving at Aunt Greta’s

Like Clockwork

Blue Cafeteria Trays

How I Learned that the Cutest Jock at OR Had a Crush

S’mores

I Don’t Know Who Started It

Writer’s Block

J.D. and I

News to Me

In the Aftermath of Operation Girlfriend Defreak

3.1 Miles of Conversation

Megan

Telling Truths

Nickname

Opportunity Knocks

Overactive Imagination

Kissing as a Recreational Sport

Answering Machine Message from Dad

Because I Love Her

Memory

Illness

At the Bagel Shop

At the Laundromat

Change of Season

Friends with Benefits

Thank God

My Mother Is Wrong

Overheard

J.D. Knows to Avoid the Potholes

“Hi, Daddy!”

My Father Wraps Me in His Long Arms

Dad Doesn’t Lecture Me

Back at Our Apartment

Funny

In the Aftermath of Operation Sedate My Mother

Protesting

Escort

How I Got to the Bottom of Things

Realization

December 22–8:32 P.M.

My Good-byes

Holidaze

Christmas Dinner

Comfort

Back to Bed

In Bed

“I Am.”

Time Well Wasted

But Before I Left

Mom’s New Car

Lobstah Feed

MapQuest Says

Part Two - BOISE, IDAHO

Danny

Home, in Daylight

I Don’t Call Linus

Dad Gives Me a Ride to School

Hello

All He Says

He Stops Kissing Me

Eating Lunch with the Leftovers

Silly Hamlet

Dress Rehearsal

The Best-Laid Plans

My World Shatters

Respect

Clarification

Confession

A Million

In the Aftermath of the End of the World

In Burst

Dad Tries to Hug Me

Why We Did What We Did

Dad’s Lecture, Part 2

Boiled Down

One More Question

Staying Home from School Because My Head Hurts

I Call Mom

After a Loop around the Park

Innocent Questions

I Can’t Believe

I’m So Stupid

A Recipe

To Cheer Me Up

Temporary Tattoos

Slumber Party Interruptus

Tearjerker

The Truth about Emily

The Truth about Danny

My Best Friend Is the Best

Then Again

Out of Habit

Driven

One Sunday Morning

Report Card

So I Make a Study Date with Katie

Outside on the Thomases’ Front Steps Katie Reveals

I Gasp

The House Is Quiet

That’s How Danny Found Me

I Tell Danny

Loner

Danny Suggested That I Try to Be Understanding

Eight Seconds Later

Eight Hours Later

When I Was in New Hampshire

My Best Friend Is Falling in Love

Mom Calls Me

Talented

Four-Letter Words

Judging from the Roar of the Crowd

The Saturday Show

Linus Looks So Cute

Midset

“The Next Song Isn’t a Cover”

After the Applause

Standing Ovation

The Auditorium Door

The First Letter I Don’t Send

P.S.

The Second Letter I Don’t Send

Period

Katie Hasn’t

I Think

The Downside of Living with Dad and Danny

Things I Threw Away

He Reminds Me

My Girl

All Week

What I’d Say to Katie

Temper Tantrum

No One Can Hurt My Heart Inside My Little Ball

I Am to Blame

Because I Want My Best Friend Back

You’re Invited

Saturday, 1:00 P.M.

Childish Games

Roller Coaster

Flame

To Love, To Family, To Friends

I’ve Changed My Mind, All I Want Is Everything

A Conversation for Adults

Revelations

Mom Plans to Come for a Visit

My Mother Always Told Me

Wishful Thinking

What My Ex-Boyfriend Doesn’t Know

On One Side

On the Other Side

Every Morning at the Bus Stop

Just Silence

Studying at Katie’s House

I Can’t Find My Blue Notebook

Today at the Bus Stop

Sitting Down

A Moment of Truth

My Notebook

The Cry of a Thousand Years

Even Though It’s Not Our Stop

Question

Rebellion

Three Choices

Over Coffee and a Cranberry Scone

Calculated

Wishing Well

“My Life Has Been a Hurricane”

Skipping School Never Sounded So Good

Skipping Stones

Tunnel of Love

In the Library!

At Zeppole

In Both of My Classes

After the Last Bell

Walking Daydreams

Worries

Notes from My Heart

What Emily Said

My Dad Comes Home

On the Way Home from Pizza

Kissing My Boyfriend

Snuggled in Bed

Dear Marcie

I Jump Out of Bed and Call Linus

On the Last Page of My Notebook

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher