As Good as Love gets at Seventeen

When there is so much going on in your life it becomes hard to realize that what's happening is real and once you do it there is no turning back. People need a person to help them with their problems to take stress away and get a reality check. People need someone who loves them. In the book “Crank” by Ellen Hopkins, this love is something the main character, Kristina/Bree needed without knowing and her family wasn't helping her get it. But as they say love is blind Kristina/Bree finds someone who loves her for who she truly is and will not except anything else. This is the love all people need the most, but only some search for it.

Kristina/Bree finds love, real and true love after her trial and fails. But this love is different the other guys only love her for her so called “Bree” character he loves Kristina and knows everything about her. He is not only Kristina’s “lover” but her best friend. Chase is Kristina’s first true love and because of the events that happened I hope it’s also her last. Chase knows Kristina better than she knows herself. On page 359 in the book Kristina is trying to hide her feelings and what happened the night before. But Chase senses something wrong and pushes to find the answer, and then he gets it. When he finds out that Kristina was raped by Brendan he goes ballistic and threatens to kill him, which slowly leads into sorrow that he wasn't there to help, which slowly leads to him saying his true feelings. “I love you, Kristina”. Not only does Chase know everything about Kristina he loves her and wants to marry her. Nothing changes his mind about his love for her. Even two enormous moments in Kristina’s life can't change his feelings, like when he finds out that she's pregnant and its not his baby its Brendan’s he only offers to help. He doesn't tell Kristina to get and abortion he only offers to help her carry and take care of the baby with her. At the age of seventeen if this isn't true love, what is?

In conclusion, everyone needs someone who loves them in their life family, friends, anything. They need another mind to help them think especially when they are going through a lot or stressing with anything. Maybe not everyone is able to find this love but Kristina was able to and without that I don’t think she would have been able to deal with all the things going on at once in her life. Because loving yourself sometimes just isn't enough.