You'll Be the Death of Me

by Karen M. McManus

Cal you have to get a friend for Gilbert. In Switzerland it’s illegal to own only one guinea pig because they get lonely. She had a good point about Gilbert. My guinea pig was a lot happier after my parents agreed to let me buy a second one. Except then George died, and Gilbert was so inconsolable that he died three days later—so. Not sure it was a win, in the end.

“We all make mistakes, right? And almost never see the fallout coming. If we did, we’d never do…whatever it was that we…did.”