“Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked.
“I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.” Isaac was laughing,
but Patrick raised a chastening finger and said, “Augustus, please.
Let’s return to you and your struggles. You said you fear oblivion?”
“I did,” Augustus answered. Patrick seemed lost. “Would, uh, would anyone like to speak to that?”
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends.
My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
I was a fairly shy person— not the hand-raising type. And yet, just this once, I decided to speak.
I half raised my hand and Patrick, his delight evident, immediately said, “Hazel!”
I was, I’m sure he assumed, opening up. Becoming Part Of The Group.
I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue.
“There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us.
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