OUTSTANDING chapter .....full of great emotions and use of language !!!!
Especailly loved .....
And as three siblings, Sasha always thought nothing would break them; a three-chord strand that’s perfectly in tune or a tripod that could stand firm on anything. Now, she’s not so sure.
“If I could do that stuff on the list then I – I wouldn’t be that sick kid anymore. But this isn’t going away, is it?”
“You know those moments when you actually worry about the future of humanity? I had a student come up to me today and ask whether you could have a set of identical twins that wasn’t two boys or two girls. Like, she genuinely wanted to know if you could have a boy and girl and be identical twins. All I kept thinking was, you are studying to be a doctor, and you could be operating on someone’s brain one day. That worries me, and you aren’t really listening to me, are you?”
“Seriously, stop,” April says, much more angrily than she intended. She steps out of her sister’s grasp and Bianca looks a little stunned. “Sorry. I’m just – this isn’t a big deal. I don’t want it to be a big deal.”
Bianca holds up her hands in surrender. “Okay, not a big deal.”
"Thank you.”
She isn’t used to this: being social. Being around people who don’t know her every intimate detail. They don’t know Dex, their history, or how she copes when everything becomes too much. People come up to her, guys and girls she recognizes vaguely from some of her classes, and ask her how she’s going, just because that’s what you do at a party, not because you have some hidden agenda.