1. When a boy who leaves goosebumps on every inch of your skin tries to play you his favourite song, don’t let him. He’ll get it stuck in your head and under your fingertips and when he leaves, you won’t be able to listen to it without feeling like you’re choking.
2. Don’t let him touch you all over no matter how much you want to feel him against you. Leave a few spots untouched so that when you’re sleeping alone again, at least your left wrist and an inch of your right hip won’t sting with the remaining burn of his mouth.
3. Don’t mistake wasps for butterflies. Sometimes when you feel your stomach flutter and your hands start to shake it’s not love.
4. Just because he tells you he loves you doesn't mean he’s going to stay.
5. It’s okay to delete his number after he kisses the pretty girl he met when he was drunk. It’s okay to leave when he hurts you. You don’t have to keep falling into him.
6. When he tells you that you’re beautiful, try to remember that you were beautiful before him too.
7. He might have been your favourite 3am but it's okay to let go. Stop wondering if you spend just as much time in his mind as he spends in yours.
8. Wash your hands. Wash your sheets. Wash them over and over again. Keep washing them until they feel clean, until you feel clean again. It's okay to feel dirty. It's okay to feel used but keep trying, don't stop trying to feel clean again.
9. I’ve realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist any more. That the person I missed doesn't exist any more. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they wouldn't, but that never works.
