Barely Floating: Chapter 1

In this contemporary young adult novel about loss, friendship, fame, existence, and finding our purpose in life, Drake Laine recounts the days leading up to his breaking points.

Epigraph:
Are you created by your brain—or by your whole body?
For some people, their body is their identity.
For others, the body is more like a machine that allows us to live—and even one that can help other people to go on living after our own deaths.

Organ donation is a way of making this happen, by giving your organs to be used after your death to replace damaged parts of other people’s bodies.
Some people even give others spare organs like one of their kidneys while they are alive.
Yet if someone else has my heart, whose is it: mine, theirs, or both of ours?
—The End