They say that just before you die your whole live flashes before your eyes,but thats not how it happened for me.
To be honest,I'd always thought the whole final-moment ,
mental life-scan thing sounded pretty awful. Some things are better left buried and forgotten, as my mom would say. I'd be happy to forget all of fifth grade, for example (the glasses-and-pink-braces period ) ,and does anybody want to relieve the first day of middle school? Add in all of the boring family vacations ,pointless algebra classes,period cramps,and bad kisses I barely lived though the first time around...
The truth is,though,i wouldn't have minded reliving my greatest hits : when Rob Crokran and I first hooked up in the middle of the dance floor at homecoming so everyone saw and knew whe were together ; when lindsay,Elody,Ally and i got drunk and tried to make snow angels in may,leaving person-sized prints in Ally's lawn ;
my sweet-sixteen party when we set a hundred tea lights and danced on the table in the backyard; the time lindsay and I pranked Clara Seuse on halloween ,got chased by the cops, and laughed so hard we almost threw up—the things i wanted to remember; the things i wanted to be remembered for.
But before I died I didn't think of rob or any other guy, i didn't think of all the things I'd done with my friends, i didn't even think of my family , or the way the morning light turns the wall in my room cream , or the way the azaleas outside my window smell in July, a mixture of honey and cinnamon
Instead i thought of Vicky Hallinan
Specifically, I thought of the time in fourth grade when lindsay announced that she would have Vicky on her dodge ball team .'shes too fat' lindsay blurted out . 'You could hit her with your eyes closed'
YOU ARE READING
Before I Fall
Teen FictionThey say to live every day as if it's your last-but you never actually think its going to be.You always think you'll have more time Thats what i thought. But i was wrong The thing is ,you don't get to know when it happens
