First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci

Author:Cecil Castellucci [Castellucci, Cecil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Issues, Juvenile Fiction, Adolescence
ISBN: 9780545388108
Google: BGiC6i-1mdQC
Amazon: 0545060826
Barnesnoble: 0545060826
Goodreads: 10699692
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

35.

Why is the hardest question in the world to answer.

36.

She’s in the living room. It’s the day after our good day. She’s got her hand splashed over her forehead, like she’s got a headache.

“Mal,” she says as I come into the room and put a plate of spaghetti down in front of her. “I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

“Well, I’m sure you’d do fine,” I say.

“One day you’ll go,” she says. “One day you’ll go to college. Be a man of your own. Have a family. I’ll be forgotten. I’ll be all alone.”

I don’t know what to say.

There is a thread that goes from me to her. It’s a lifeline. Only it’s not keeping me alive.

Maybe if I got far enough away to snap it, she’d take the trash out on her own. Remember to eat more than just one meal. Wash her face. Take her pills. Start going to talk to someone.

Maybe, if I was so far away she could never find me again, then she’d hit rock bottom and start to climb out of this mess.

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