are you there?

Alexander never believed in ghosts until they started filling his own home. To everyone else, he was the boy who seemed untouched by grief, the one who moved on too quickly after his mother's death. To his sister Elizabeth, that made him unforgivable. But Oliver, the ginger boy who Alexander saw as the smart kid at the back of their band class, saw right through his lies. He understood grief and saw Alexander for who he was beneath his carefully crafted mask.