NOAH’S POINT OF VIEW.I don’t know what I expected him to say, but it certainly was not anything like that. You’re going to die… My brows pulled together as the words echoed in my head like an unbalanced or uncoordinated orchestra. At first, I stared at him, the way he leaned against the wall my back was pressed to earlier, one foot over the other, hands in the pockets of his jersey jacket; dark curly hair unruly as it fell over his face.“I…d-die…what are you talking about, Jace?” I finally found my voice. He pushed off the wall, wiped a hand over his mouth, then looked at his reflection in the mirror. The bathroom grew eerily quiet for a moment too long before he finally spoke again, shoulders shaking, his voice gravelly, as if he pulled it from a deep, pitch-black place. “Do you remember my mother, Noah?”I nodded slowly, my arms still folded. “Yeah, you two were inseparable. Is she okay?”“Have you ever wondered why you never saw her again after my eleventh birthday?” He didn’t l
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