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What did she want? She wanted her life back. She wanted to go back two days and unbreak her head, make sure none of this ever happened. She wanted what she’d always wanted. To do something, achieve something big, something undeniably great, to prove that she could. So that life could finally begin. Jet had played the waiting game too long, and now she was out of time.
Oof this one hits close to home
“Do something?” Mom cried. “What do you mean? Do what?” Something great. Something no one had ever done before. “I’m going to solve my own murder.”
“This is my first,” she said, hands up. “First time being murdered also. Newbie.
Jet was the one dying, and yet somehow Luke had managed to make it all about him. He was good at that.
“Well, you’ve probably ruled some things out. I’m no detective, but it probably wasn’t aliens or Taylor Swift. She’s very busy.”
“I think motives for murder usually are pretty dark. But it is my first time.”
“Jet.” Billy turned to her, the storm settling in his eyes, reaching out to take her hand, holding it in her lap. “It was never your fault.”
think I’ve spent so long waiting for it all to begin, for life to really start, that I missed out on what it was really all about. It’s not law school, or the big fancy job at the big fancy firm, or solving your own murder because it’s your last chance to prove something.
It’s about all of those small moments I missed while I was waiting. I haven’t been able to see it until now.
Because, Billy, this past week, I haven’t really been dying. I think, maybe, it’s the opposite. I’ve finally been living. And that’s all because of you. You showed me. It’s the best thing anyone’s ever done for me, and I’ll never forget it.
“I think this has been the worst week of my life, because I’m going to lose you, and I don’t want to lose you.” He cleared the lump in his throat. “But, it’s also been the best week of my life, because I got to spend it with you.”
She’s home, because she’s here with Billy.
“It wasn’t about me, it’s not because she couldn’t love me. It was because of you.”
“It was Jet who figured most of this out, not me. She did it. We just needed a couple more hours, that’s all we needed. Then Jet would have known it was you too. She died not knowing.” He cried, couldn’t stop it now. “I would have let her die thinking it was me, so that she had that. I was going to give her that, I wanted her to have that, I thought she needed it.”
billy😭😭
“I know, Dad. I’m not an idiot. I am more than you think I am. Not just poor, sweet Billy.” He sniffed, waved his phone. “I wasn’t recording you. But someone was listening. Just one person.”
Not the ending he’d planned, but an ending he could live with. Because he was the one who had to live. For Jet.
For Her (Updated—New verse and chorus) I won’t drag you round in my heart no more, I’ll save one half for me. Letting go, without ever forgetting, no. Because you’re coming too, get ready. I’ll do what you asked, leaving at last. Find new stars, OK, I’m going. Wish me luck in your little blue truck. One day starts today because— I loved her and she loved me back, Same page, same track, not the right story. Found each other to find ourselves, I’m sorry, But it’s a lesson I’ll never forget. That final week, not quite long enough, not quite dead yet. But if it’s a frog to you, then it’s a frog to
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Just rip out my heart why don’t you
Actually, in some ways, it’s the easiest, because you’re the one person who makes everything feel easy, and Home is wherever you are, Billy.
But, was it really a waste of time, if I loved every minute of it?
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