“Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.”

“I had fought my feelings, guarded them, and bottled them up. I had experienced the happiest moments of my life while at Eastern, all of them with Travis. Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.”

“I missed a fight tonight,” he said. “Adam called. I didn’t go. ”“Why?” I said, turning to face him.“I wanted to make sure you got home.”

“I loved him, and no matter what my reasons were to live without him, I knew it wasn’t what I wanted.”

“He laughed once. "Unbelievable. The one girl I want, and she doesn't want me.”

“I’ve got a fight in fourty-five minutes, Pidge. I want you there.”

“I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That’s when it clicked: she had asked me not to settle, to fight for the person I loved, and for the first time, I did what she expected of me. I had finally lived up to who she wanted me to be.”