"I'm sorry I couldn't make forever happen." he apologized, smiling sadly at me and closing his eyes briefly.
"Forever is not real." I quoted, remembering what he told me before.
"I almost believed."
"Me too."
"Forever," he said, "For Always. That's how long we will be best friends."
"Not forever," I whisper to myself, a tear falling down my face, "Not for always. For almost."
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AJ always knew that her best friend Liam would die young. It was inevitable. It was what happened when people got cancer. They died.
At Liam's funeral, AJ can't focus and she thinks about why she's sitting where she is. She thinks about cancer. She thinks about Liam. And she remembers. She remembers moments from the past. Moments from before her best friend died. At Liam's funeral, she finally says goodbye.