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I Want At Home And Eat Chips And Cry Because You Are Alone

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Let’s admit it: we’re all going to be alone for Valentine’s day. I get that there are those people out there who will be in love and there will be a lot of people losing that V Card over Valentine’s day, but there are those people out there who are chronically alone. But I will agree that the entire “stay at home and eat chips and cry because you are alone” scenario is pretty stereotypical to today’s society. I hate this whole “love” concept. History has spoken for itself: love actually does make you do stupid things. Like buying $40 worth of candy at King Soopers. Like falling for some cute guy you met at summer camp that you could never dream of having. Which is actually a pretty good comparison to what happened when my mom fell for my dad in the first place. God, that was a wreck. Twenty years ago, Marissa and Carter Sage fell for each other.
It truly was the “stereotypical first high school relationship.” They knew each other since junior year of high school. It was almost like those perfect couples in books, like Hazel and Augustus or Tris and Four. After they went to ASU together and graduated, Marissa took Carter’s last name as her own.
That resulted in Mia Abigail Sage, my older sister, being welcomed as the newest Sage a good two years later. She was a good kid, always quiet, but even then she still had a ridiculous habit of picky-eating. To this day she will not eat anything from steak to cookies.
A little more than three years after Mia came me. And just

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