WARNING! Spoiler Alert! If you haven't read "The Pact" by Jodi Pilcoult and you plan to or you are reading it - this chapter is a spoiler! So sorry! xx finnie
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They said I had five months left.
Five months to be amazing.
Five months before I say goodbye
Forever.
We were driving home from the hospitial, I was in the back seat with Jeremy and mum and dad were in the front.
"Have you read 'The Pact'?" Jeremy asked. He knew the answer. He knew I read it every christmas holidays. I told him anyway.
"It's my favourite book, why?"
"Just wondering," he whispered.
"Jeremy - what's wrong?"
He turned to me with sad eyes. The eyes that say they didn't know what life was worth living for anymore.
And those eyes - they put the fear of God in me.
Do you know what "The Pact" is about? It's written by Jodi Pilcoult.
It about a girl
And a boy
Childhood best friends
Like me and Jeremy
And then that boy and that girl
They fall in love
Like me and Jeremy
But do you know what happens to that girl?
She becomes unable to live anymore.
She doesn't know how to get from point A to point B.
But that boy, he still loves her to death
Like me and Jeremy
And do you know what they do? They make a pact.
A pact for a duel suicide.
They plan to kill each other.
Because the girl, she wants to die
And the boy, can't live without her.
It my favourtie book.
But not if its going to be a true story soon.
Was Jeremy planning on commiting suicide when I die?
No...
...he can't be...
He's way more sensible than that, right?
Right?!!!
"Jeremy, whats wrong?!!" I shouted. He looked vacant.
"Is everything alright in the back there?" dad asked cautiously.
"Yeah dad, Jeremy just thought he lost his ipod for a second,"
"Oh, okay,"
It was a good thing I was an excellent liar.
"Nothing Ruby, I was just off in space, that's all," he whispered.
We pulled into his driveway. A sensor light flicked on outside.
"I'll walk you inside," I said.
"I'm fine Rue," he said,
"Don't be silly, I..." but he cut me off.
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