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“I proo this far if I wasn’t one-hundred percent ready to colossy with tears and he leaned in to press a gentle kiss to her quivering lips before he pulled back to study her face

“Do you believe me?” he asked

“Yes” Her voice was scratchy as tears leaked from the corners of her eyes

“Then why are you crying?”

“Because I understand exactly how you feel,” she said

“What do you mean?” He shook his head, lost

“I knohat it’s like to feel guilty about being the one who’s still alive”

“Juniper?”

“I’ve been keeping a huge secret froht I’d live to see twenty-three, let alone twenty-five”

“What?” Her words hit hiine her life force being a dio out at any moment

“I was born with a congenital heart defect We knew froe a transplant was my only hope for a chance of a full life, but it’s not that easy to find alife behind a tayon, but I couldn’t participate My brother really suffered the s because I was always holding hi him of his life force That last year I had accepted the fact that I was going to die My health was disintegrating at a rapid pace, and I was just too exhausted to fight any longer”

Her words sent a spike of fear through hi her before they even met He wrapped an arm around her shoulders, and pulled her closer This hy he fully supported organ donation If he was going to die the least he could do was give someone else a chance at life

“The notebook you sariting in that first night in Cupa was s I wanted to do before I died I checked as many of them off as I could before I landed in the hospital that last time, and after my second lease on life, I vowed to complete the ones that were left over I watched so ans they needed I felt like I owed it to theuilt that ca I’d never considered”

“I had no idea,” he said, stunned Juni hadn’t sees Now he knehat the motivation behind that was

“There was no way you could have guessed” She peered up at hied pair, aren’t we?”