Laws Of Floating
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Last published Sun, Jan 19, 2020
"Friends" sounds like a foreign word. Trick doesn't seem like the type to be friends with someone like me. And he doesn't even know about me. As soon as he does, he'd be gone before I could blink. I don't feel like taking a chance.
So I let him walk away.
And that's that.
Elizabeth was diagnosed with leukemia at age 12. Ever since then, she's felt as if she's drowning. Every second she sinks closer and closer to her death. There's no lifeboat to save her. Her parents gave her a therapist, her older brother acted as if she no longer existed, and her younger sister just tries to pretend like everything's normal.
Elizabeth has accepted the fact she is going to die. She's come to terms in a way. She's ready.
And then she meets Trick.
At a play Elizabeth agreed to go to as a once in a lifetime event, Trick introduces himself. He's the new kid in town. He has his own burden that is making him drown as well.
When the two teenagers collide, they seem to drift closer to the surface. They know how to breathe. How to live.
There are Laws Of Floating.
You have to stop struggling.
Take a deep breath.
And.... float.
THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT. A VERY, VERY, VERY, ROUGH DRAFT.
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