“Do you know what it’s like to know that deep down, it has to have crossed people’s minds, my parents’ minds, yours?” “It should’ve been me.” I shake my head, his words tumbling around my head. “I told you—” “And you lied!” he shouts over me. Nostrils flaring, chest heaving. “Whether you want to admit it or not.” He won’t believe me. No matter what I say… “You’re supposed to be here, Jeremy,” I whisper instead. “You’re supposed to be here.” A world without him in it… Is no world I want to live in. Maybe you should tell him that, a voice pipes up, and I go still… because it sounds like Izzy.
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