Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds

but if the blood inside you is on the inside of someone else, you never want to see it on the outside of them.

WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN we can usually look up and see the moon, big and bright, shining over us. That always made me feel better. Like there’s something up there beaming down on us in the dark. But the day before yesterday, when Shawn died, the moon was off.