Words Unsaid

"It's been about a month now since he died. The teachers at his funeral said he was a great student. Never missed a homework assignment and he was the most diligent student they had ever met. The papers said he was a kind kid that would never hurt anyone. But they always say that. And it's not true. I know Garrett, and he wasn't the perfect teen they make him out to be. He was expelled from school twice on account of smoking in the bathroom between periods, and he definitely wasn't known for being softhearted. But I guess an unfortunate death somehow changes that."

Sam is an ordinary girl with a remarkably unordinary, bad ass best friend, Garrett Fray. When Garret is diagnosed with cancer, neither of them can imagine just how much their lives will change. Sam is pulled into Garret's world of Lumbar Punctures, Vincristine and hospital rounds, and Sam's life is impacted in ways that she had never imagined, causing her to rethink what life is really all about.

"I'm living the life i never thought in a million years i would have. The one that i always used to say 'thank god that's not me' about. How come we always think this kind of stuff isn't gonna happen to us? How come we always feel so far away from it all?"