You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)

by Dustin Thao

“Alright then. What would you wish for, if you could have anything?” “Anything?” “Anything at all.” “No limits?” “No limits.” I hesitate. “Do you really want to know?” “I wouldn’t be asking if I didn’t,” Sam says. I close my eyes and take in a deep breath. I don’t have to think long because I already know the answer. “I wish you were here,” I say. “I wish you were lying right next to me. I wish I could look over and see you smiling back. I wish I could run a hand through your hair, and know you’re real. I wish we could finish school and graduate together. So we can finally leave this place like we always planned, and find an apartment somewhere, and figure out the rest of our lives together so I don’t have to do it alone. I wish you were alive again … and I wish I had picked up the phone that night, so that all this would be different, and everything would go back to before…”