PrologueZOEYThe wind whipped my hair up around my face, but it felt wonderful. In fact, everything felt good. Graduation was only a week ago, but it seemed like it had already been years. I sat in my room on the window sill, letting the breeze flow in. The summer was a blank slate, and decisions had to be made. At the moment, I kind of felt like I was on the top of a mountain, the whole world below me, any direction I wanted to go. No doubt the direction I wanted would not be what my parents approved of.My sister died ten years ago. She’d been the wild one, partying, boyfriends, in trouble in school. She’d been out with three friends, and they’d all gotten drunk and decided to drive home. The car had wrapped around a tree. All three of them passed away that night.That had been one of the worst mornings of my entire life. Mom and Dad had cried like I’d never seen them before. My sister was never coming home again. It was awful.For the decade since, I’d been an absolute angel, terr
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