A sound falls out of me that I can’t take back. A choking, painful sound. And if she’d listened close enough, if she’d just strained her ear, she would have heard exactly what that sound said. I’m hopelessly, irrevocably in love with you, June Bailey. The desperate, aching kind of love. The kind there’s no coming back from. The kind there’s no way out of. The kind that’s going to be the death of me one day. I fall more in love with June than I ever thought possible as we clutch each other in a moonlit graveyard on her eighteenth birthday, with my mother on my mind and the scent of sweet
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