When the Stars Fall (Lost Stars, #1)

by Emery Rose

Lila had five freckles on her nose. I knew because I’d counted.

“What happens when the stars fall, Jude?”

“I’ll put them back in the sky for you,” he said, sounding so confident.

“I’d do anything for y...

“You’ve got stars,” he said, pointing at the ceiling.

I looked up but at first, I couldn’t see anything.

“Turn off the...

I did as he said and turned off the lamp on the dresser. It wasn’t that dark out yet but it was dark enough to see the stars glowing on the ceiling above my bed. I studied them, trying to work out the pattern and figure o...

“Have they always be...

He chuckled under his brea...

Jude. But would he have really done ...

“What happens when the stars fall, Jude?” “I’ll put them back in the sky for you.”

“I wanna enlist with you.”

I’d known Reese since kindergarten and this was the first I’d heard of it.

We can enlist together. They’ve got a buddy program so we’ll be in boot together.”

“I want some direction in my life. I don’t have the money or the grades to go to college and I don’t wanna end up in some dead-end job, working at a plant or doing concrete work and have nothing to show for it. I want a purpose in life, you know?”

Reese had always been the joker, and a lot of people didn’t take him seriously. Until now, I hadn’t either. “Yeah, I do. I get it.”

“I’ll wait until your eighteenth birthday and if it’s still what you want, we’ll go together.”

“Baby. I love you. Tell me what I can do to make this better. I’ll do anything.”

“Put the stars back in the sky, Jude. It’s so dark and lonely without them.”

“You owe me a date,” I called after her.

She paused in the doorway and looked over her shoulder. “You owe me an entire galaxy. I’m still waiting for you to put the stars back in the sky.”

I’ll be by your side through thick and thin. I’ll walk through fire for you. Carry your burdens. Love you until I take my dying breath. And even after that, my soul will go on loving you and I will find you in the next life.