The Passed Note Issue 9 February 2019 | Page 16

He said he’d never done it and he was waiting for the right girl. I didn’t want to kiss him, but I didn’t want to let him down either. And in any case, kisses no longer meant anything to me.

Sandra says she wouldn’t have done it, but who knows what Sandra would have done? Sandra is non-confrontational. Sandra preaches love and positivity. Sandra is the one who reads romance novels from the stands in the gas station; she watches rom-coms with her boyfriend and cries at happy endings.

Sandra thinks she knows love. But there is something that Sandra doesn’t know yet—

Happy endings are scarce in the real world.