I woke up to my phone singing a song by The Hectic Glow. Gus’s favorite.
That meant he was callingor someone was calling from his phone. I glanced at the alarm clock: 2:35 A.M.
He’s gone, I thought as everything inside of me collapsed into a singularity.
I could barely creak out a “Hello?” I waited for the sound of a parent’s annihilated voice.
“Hazel Grace,” Augustus said weakly. “Oh, thank God it’s you. Hi. Hi, I love you.”
“Hazel Grace, I’m at the gas station. Something’s wrong. You gotta help me.”
“What? Where are you?” “The Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch. I did something wrong with the G-tube and I can’t figure it out and—”
“I’m calling nine-one-one,” I said. “No no no no no, they’ll take me to a hospital. Hazel, listen to me.
Do not call nine- one-one or my parents I will never forgive you don’t please just come please just come and fix my goddamned G-tube.
I’m just, God, this is the stupidest thing. I don’t want my parents to know I’m gone. Please.
I have the medicine with me; I just can’t get it in. Please.”
He was crying. I’d never heard him sob like this except from outside his house before Amsterdam.
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