She pulled out her phone again. This time, she gave her hand permission to pull up the pictures of Eric. There was an ERASE ALL button. All she had to do was hit it. That would be a good start.

Her finger hovered over the button for a moment, teasing it, just coming into enough contact. But she didn’t press down.

No. Even better. She would go through the pictures one by one and erase them manually. That was more like a ritual, more cleansing.

She would wipe out all one hundred and fifty-four of them right now, in her sleeping clothes, on her stoop, in the early morning sunshine in full view of Mrs. Foo and whoever walked by.

Picture one: a very early one of Eric, soon after they met. He was buying a sandwich and didn’t even see her take the photo. Kind of historical. She would come back to that one.

Picture two: from an early rehearsal. Same thing. She would come back to these. Better to start in the middle. Back to the main menu. Scroll, scroll…

Picture thirty-nine: Eric in the theater. Very generic. A little blurry. Erasable. She took a deep breath, clenched her free hand into a fist, and hit the TRASH button. Picture gone.

Or was it? Did the phone save trashed pictures? She had no idea. She backed through the menus to check. No, it did not. The picture was gone. Only one hundred and fifty-three left to go.

Scarlett managed to prune twenty-three of the pictures before the second, heavier wave of exhaustion hit. She crept back up to her room, her feet heavy. Her sister Lola was already awake and in the shower. Scarlett dropped down on her bed and listened to the water run in the bathroom next door.

It was six thirty in the morning, and Scarlett felt herself falling under. But before she gave up and just let the sleep come, she said to herself, out loud, “I am making a new start.”

To Do List: Read all the Point books!

Airhead
Being Nikki
By Meg Cabot

Suite Scarlett
By Maureen Johnson

Sea Change
The Year My Sister Got Lucky
South Beach
French Kiss
Hollywood Hills
By Aimee Friedman

The Heartbreakers
The Crushes
By Pamela Wells

This Book Isn’t Fat,
It’s Fabulous
By Nina Beck

Wherever Nina Lies
By Lynn Weingarten

And Then Everything
Unraveled
By Jennifer Sturman

Summer Boys
By Hailey Abbott
Summer Boys
Next Summer
After Summer
Last Summer
Summer Girls

In or Out
By Claudia Gabel
In or Out
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Sweet and Vicious
Friends Close,
Enemies Closer

Hotlanta
By Denene Millner
and Mitzi Miller
Hotlanta
If Only You Knew
What Goes Around

Love in the Corner Pocket
The Comeback
By Marlene Perez

Pool Boys
Meet Me at the Boardwalk
By Erin Haft

Popular Vote
By Micol Ostow

Top 8
By Katie Finn

Kissing Booth
By Lexie Hill

Kissing Snowflakes
By Abby Sher

Once Upon a Prom
By Jeanine Le Ny
Dream
Dress
Date