By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters

Author:Julie Anne Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Published: 2010-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

Everyone’s a liar. Everyone I’ve ever known. He’s lying about the cancer.

Twenty-three J_Doe’s on the DOD today. Twenty-three completers. Kim pokes her head in. “Your father’s working late, so it’ll just be us for dinner. Where’d you get that?”

I shut the lid and set the laptop aside on my bed. “Did Santana give it to you?” Yes, Kim. Because he’s in love with me. He finds me beautiful and desirable.

I’m the biggest liar of all.

I scoot off the edge of the mattress and Kim says, “You’re not wearing your brace.”

I walk to my desk and open a drawer. It’s empty. My book bag is slung over the back of the rocking chair, and I go over to it, dig around for what I need. A pen. The back of a math problem sheet I never bothered to start. I write: “Can I take a walk?” I hand it to Kim.

She reads the note. “Where?”

I set the pen on the desk and gaze into my blank monitor.

Kim looks at me, down at the note, up at me. She lowers the note to her side and goes, “I don’t suppose you want me to walk with you.”

I feel her eyes, her overarching need to reach me. I’m too far gone.

“Okay,” she says. “But I’m going to follow you.”

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