That's why Charlie started to change, now he had friends and his English teacher liked him very much, even tough sometimes he would still be bullied but Patrick and Sam will help him to get through it. Patrick showed a wonderful world to Charlie and so Charlie met Marry-Elizabeth , and one night Marry-Elizabeth told Charlie that she loved him, but Charlie loved Sam, Sam also loved Charlie actually but she already had a boyfriend. To Patrick.....He is a gay, but his boyfriend's dad was very mad at his son because he is a gay. And eventually they broke up, and Charlie stood out and fought the people who were fighting Patrick, at that night, Patrick and Charlie went out and drank beer on the street, they talked about funny things and Patrick kissed Charlie, and then he said sorry.
I like Patrick very much, he is cute, funny and cheerful, I really don't want to see him cry I want him to stay happy forever. But youth means to say goodbye. Sam went to University of Pennsylvaniaand Patrick went there with Sam, Marry-Elizabeth went to another college in another town and now they have to say goodbye to everyone.
The day they went away, Charlie went to the hospital. Cause he has a recurrence of an old illness--he had mental disease, his memory always go back to the night his aunt died and he went crazy and faint at home.
None of his friends know this, so I think this is called a secret that doesn't want to be known. At last, Charlie told everything to the nurse and his parents cried about the things he had been through, Charlie got out, and so he can meet his friends, they still can meet but I'm afraid that Charlie and Sam will never be together.
'I don't know if I will have anytime to write more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school. And you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about, or know someone who's gone through it. It made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don't happen. And there are people who forget what it's like to be 16 when they turn 17. I know these will all be stories someday. And our picture will become old photographs. And we'll all become somebody's mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here. And I am looking at her, and she is so beautiful. I can see it, this one moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on buildings, and everything that makes you wonder. And you are listening to that song on that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite. '
Hope I will find a Sam to stay with me and a Patrick who will say "Let's drive." And I want to be a Charlie who can stand up in a tunnel and feeling belong to someone, somewhere one day.
We are infinite.
--Angela Chen