Chapter Fourty Five

"Uh ,we were only eleven

But acting like grownups

Like we are in the present

Drinking from plastic cups

Singing "love is forever and ever"

Well, I guess that was true"

                                 --Anne Marie

                                    2002

Ethan's POV

I woke up to the sound of muffled sniffles in the background and opened my eyes groggily to see a dark figure crawled up like a ball on the couch next to the bed.

At first I think that it is my mind that is playing tricks on me when I hear it again…small, light but definitely there. 

I raise my hand to my eyes and give them a good rub as I try to register what had happened earlier. Lin had come over to stay with me in order to abat