"Something is wrong with me." I scoff, grabbing a fist full of my comforter to contain my anger. "So you call me? Call someone else, Luke. I don't know what you want from me." I hear another cry and some heavy breathing. "I-I want you! That's what's wrong with me! I don't know what to do." ❀ in which a boy living a lie and girl living a nightmare fall in love; a.u.

• • • • • Watching from afar has become my new way of life. Watching my friends be happy, watching my peers live in a blissful ignorance, and watching my family watch me wither away. Being diagnosed with cancer was a painful punch to the gut, a wake up call I didn't think I needed. And as I watched my family crumble apart under the weight of my sickness, I made the decision that nobody else would ever know. So my cancer is my secret, it's locked away in so many vaults that nobody will ever be able to reach it. Not even Zach Dawson.