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

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He looked at me steadily. “To you.”

The room seemed to tilt slightly beneath me. I pressed my feet flat on the floor and breathed.

Oliver reached into his backpack with his uninjured hand. He extracted a sealed envelope. My name was written across the front in handwriting I recognized immediately, the looping, slanted handwriting of the girl who had continue reading …