The Hospital Called About A Boy Who Listed Me As His Emergency Contact Until I Walked Into His Room And Everything Changed

something underneath the confusion that I didn’t have a clean word for. Recognition, maybe, though of what I couldn’t yet say.

“Both sides,” I repeated softly.

Oliver nodded. He didn’t elaborate. He seemed to believe those two words were enough, and they were, because I knew exactly what Rachel had meant.

At nineteen, Rachel Vance had been the most alive continue reading …