Nine Days (Unfrozen Four, #1)

by Joelina Falk

For a short moment, I want to remind Winter that everyone is fighting some battle, and everyone is entitled to fight and experience that battle however they feel works for them.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go there without Lily. This is what “having a spot” means, right? A place where you share a fond memory with someone. A place that immediately makes you think about the other person.

No one could ever measure up ever again, now that I’ve got a taste of heaven.

If his touch was a color, it’d be yellow.

How do I convey to someone who’s suicidal that I’ve already found my happiness, and it will leave right when she does? How can I express to her that she’s my happiness, that she brings the light to my life? How do I tell her that she’s my joy, everything that satisfies me, that she’s my euphoria… without making it sound like I want her to stay alive for me?

“Can someone please tell me what that means?” Lily’s forehead creases, and a groan slips from her throat. “My sun,” Eira translates for me. Luckily, she doesn’t tell her the meaning. The meaning is connected to Aiden. To twenty-year-old Aiden, only one month before he died. “If you ever find someone that makes you want to rip your heart out and hand it to that person on a silver platter. If you ever find someone that warms not only your bed but also your heart and soul… hold on to them forever. They’re your sun. They’re what’s bringing light into your life. If they can ease your pain by just being there, lighten your mood, brighten up your days by simply being in your life. Colin, Eira, el o ella es tu sol.”—he or she is your sun.