7 Reasons for Dying Young

6. What does it mean to be real?

I never thought this would happen. I never thought I'd see her kissing him.

"I love him," she says to me. "We love each other, Jo. I'm sorry. I don't know how it happened but it just did. What we have, you and me, just isn't real."

I turn away from her, concealing the tempest within me. Slowly, I say, "The only thing that isn't real, Gloria, is you."