I have lots of friends who are straight, privileged white guys, and I'm totally okay with them. I think they should have equal rights, just like he rest of us.' Christa laughed again. Her eyes crinkled up, as though she actually thought I was funny. 'As long as they don't flaunt it, right?

I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with.

But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me.

I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.

The only thing I know for sure is that this summer, I want to be with you. Sometimes I wish I could make everything else go away and have it only be you and me in our own little world.

If I wanted to have an interesting life - which I did - then there was no point sitting around debating everything in my head on a constant loop. If I wanted my life to change, then Had to do something. Or at least try.

My life was bigger than any one person.

Frankly, it's self-evident. As people of faith, it's our duty to love everyone, the way God loves everyone. There's no reason why any one group is less deserving of love - either the love of a church community, to the love of a family - than any other.

In that moment, it felt like we were the entire world. Just me and those gorgeous stars.

It could be our own private universe.