It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

Oh! I know what I wanted to tell you – you’ll never guess who Thomas is chasing after now…”Hmmm, never guess or can’t be bothered to guess – it was a hard call. I yawned...

Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying… I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though I breathed and moved, I was not alive.

And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception; just a friend or something else…perhaps it was time to find out.

Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t?

You and me, always.” His whisper mingled with the kisses he brushed along my throat. I closed my eyes and drifted away with him.

Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.