Hold On Till May

Explination

I just retread this and realized it's not quite clear what happened.

This is based on true events, but dramatized. The texting part is true, and the ignoring part is as well, but everything else is fiction.

The end of the book is rather confusing, I'll admit. The newspaper headline is the first week of May; the rest of the story takes place in April. Amber was over at Kellin's house, spending the night, and she couldn't face going to school again with Vic there, so she took a handful of pills. When Kellin found her, waking up early without her, he took the pills too because he couldn't protect her and didn't want to live without her.

Vic killed himself because he also loved Amber. He was peer pressured and didn't know what to do, so he bullied her instead of standing up for her and himself. When he saw the ambulances and got a text about it, he wandered into the woods, crying and stumbling wildly. He found the treehouse, climbing into it and smelling her. But also Kellin. He couldn't take it, so he disconnected the ladder and used the rope to hang himself.

This is the saddest story I've ever written. I guess the moral is don't fucking bully people and don't give in to or participate in peer pressure.

And there is always hope. Please hold on till May.