How would you react if, just out of the blue, you were told that you only had four days to live? Most wouldn't believe it. For humans, death is a part of life - but only for other people. Never for themselves.
Even now, as I write about something as large and important, it seems like a word of fiction. Death.
Yes, death happens. But not when you're young, not in a little town where nothing ever happens, not when you've only just started to even live.
But what if you haven't started yet? What if you're missing a vital piece of your life - something you are always waiting for. It will come eventually, you tell yourself, in the future.
So you continue on waiting - never stirring from the normalcy of your everyday - until it's already the future and you don't even realize it. Sometimes you only take action after you realize that you're doomed to fail.
Which is why I chose to tell those four about their impending deaths.
Alissa, who needed to learn how to live outside of her own flame-tinted world.
Micheal, who didn't seem to realize that honesty isn't always the best policy.
Chris, who tried so hard to meet someone else's expectation that he forgot to make his own.
And Taryn, who always looked like a frightened little girl waking from a nightmare through the window on her side of the street.
Most people wouldn't notice anything wrong with these four's lives. But when you're a shadow you can see a lot of things.
And you see a lot of things coming.
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Four Days To Live
Teen FictionIn the small town of Stonebrook, a group of teenagers receive the news that in only four days they are going to die. Taryn; A girl whose past quest to be accepted by her so-called friends led her to push away the one person who truly cared and left...
