Chapter 29
February 13th
Instead of celebrating another year together, Banner’s mother arranged his funeral.
I managed to force myself out of bed to attend, but only barely.
Standing next to his mother, I stared at his casket, and at the hole his body would soon be lowered into. Tears streamed down my cheeks at recalling how I laughed at him when he told me about purchasing us plots so when we died, we would be buried next to each other.
At the time, I wondered why he would worry about something like that when we were so young. He told me he wanted to make sure we would never be separated again, even in death.
How wrong he had been.
He died and I remained living. He wasn’t breathing anymore and my heart continued to beat even though I wished it wouldn’t. Every time my eyes closed th
