Have you ever been in love or even like someone you couldn't be with? Always seeing them in the hall, and crying when you think of them. Having feelings for your best friend's boyfriend or girlfriend is always an issue. You're not able to tell them who you like and the consequence of losing your best friend will occur. In "Something like Fate", by Susane Colasanti, not only do readers see what it's like to be in love, but they also realize the difficulty of going through love.
If you suddenly start to fall for your best friend's boyfriend or girlfriend, there are only a couple things you can do. Lani felt like her and her best friend, Erin's boyfriend, had something more than friendship between them. She didn't know if it was fate or another guy in her life that she's not meant to be with. When you're in a situation like this, the best thing to do is just keep it cool and not get too comfortable with the other guy or girl. When you've been cheated on, there are many ways to find out about the cheating. When Erin went away for the summer and Erin and her boyfriend broke up, her best friend started to date him without Erin knowing. She eventually found out the first day of school because of the rumors about her best friend and him dating. Although Erin was extremely upset by the way she found out, the most painful way of finding out is to actually see it happening.
Putting yourself in the shoes of the girl or guy who was being cheated on is the worst position to be in. Recently, I read an online story titeled "The Day My Best Friend Stole My Boyfriend", written by a 22 year old college student, and it made me think of the novel I read. The girl in the story was in a long relationship with a guy she loved and a friend she thought she could trust, but they both ended up letting her down. Her friend would always hang out with her and her boyfriend, eventually she saw something weird going on between them. One day at lunch the boyfriend had to leave for a minute and left his phone sitting at the table with his girlfriend. She checked his messages to make sure nothing was going on because he was acting different lately. When he came back, he found her with tears streaming down her face and his phone in her hand. After I read this story, I immediately thought how this connected to "Something like Fate". Both stories have an innocent girl getting hurt by her best friend because of the guy. Although it's hard to get over a breakup, a good way to try to move on is listening to songs that you can relate to.
Love songs are mad to tell a story and people listen to them to make them feel better. Listening to songs written by Taylor Swift can teach you how to move on. She talks about the experiences she's had in her life about love and her stories can teach you to be careful when you're in love. Her song "Picture to Burn" mentions how her boyfriend cheated on her with another girl. Taylor was devastated and told herself that he isn't worth crying over, but he does deserve revenge so he knows that no one messes with her. One of her newer songs called "Better than Revenge: refers to how she had her boyfriend stolen from her. Not too long after Taylor and her boyfriend split, she found out that her ex was out late with the same girl who stole one of her past boyfriends from years ago. Again, Taylor was depressed and heartbroken because she thought that the relationship was going to last longer than it did. I can relate to Taylor's songs because even though I've never been cheated on, I've heard so many stories about it that it feels like I've actually been through it.
Although it's not healthy to like your best friend's boyfriend, sometimes you can't help it. "Something like Fate" was definitely worth reading and I would recommend for people to read it. There are many messages to learn from the book such as that you're going to make sacrifices to be with the one you love, love hurts, and cheating is not right.
