This starts off depressing...but I really got into it and I liked the end. Here's a quote:
"But Lee was right. Tommy had something. And even when he was all gross from the pizza place and stoned and driving me home from Safeway after Stacy didn't show, there was a part of me that remembered how it felt when he chose me: that first time he told me I was pretty, that first time I kissed him. I remembered, too, how it felt when I finally realized it wasn't a game and it wasn't something I was watching on TV. It was something real happening between two real people. Me, I felt real; feeling real feelings, saying real words."