Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

First love. The joy, the excitement, the tingles-nothing can compare. Then it ends. The sheer pain of it all-nothing can compare to that either. How can the human body endure so much? Will you ever get over it? luckily, the body can and you will, and here are four stories describing how. Extraordinary authors Niki Burnham (Royally Jacked), Terri Clark (Sleepless), Ellen Hopkins (Impulse, Crank), and Lynda Sandoval (Who's Your Daddy?) give us four tales of falling out of love. From Toby, who loses his girl because he's afraid of sex, to Mia, who has to get over the heartache of falling for a straight girl, to Dee, who discovers too late that it was a cruel joke, not love, and Lisa, who gets dumped because she's not pretty enough, each story shows the resilience of the human heart with a little humor, a little pain, and lots of truth. Falling in love is amazing. Getting dumped sucks. Reading about someone else going through it-perfect.