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Chapters (58)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  32. CHAPTER THIRTY
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  42. CHAPTER FORTY
  43. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  52. CHAPTER FIFTY
  53. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  55. RESOURCES
  56. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  57. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  58. What’s next onyour reading list?

My therapists know I’m here, and what I’m doing, and they don’t think it’s the worst thing, so that’s cool. We talked a lot about boundaries and expectations, and I think I’m sort of prepared for whatever happens. And if I’m not, I’ve got all their numbers programmed into my phone. Plus Gray’s. And Hector’s. And Quinn’s.

I’m still living with Gray and will be for the foreseeable future, my parents effectively cut off. We tried some family therapy with them, and it didn’t work. Like, at all. So now it’s just me and Gray mostly. It’s a small family, but a good one. She still works for The Geekery, though, and managed to convince—okay, blackmail—my dad into calling a truce between him and Verona, which was pretty damn cool. She travels a lot less for work now too, and when she has to go, one of my friends stays over or my aunt Mary comes. It used to bother me that I needed a babysitter, but now I know what it really is: a solid support system, which is something that I never had before.

It’s kind of nice.

I feel healthier than I ever have. Hector, Quinn, and I even started recording ourselves skating, and our YouTube channel is getting tons of hits. We plan to turn it into an actual web show once the new camera we ordered comes in. Who knows if anything will ever come of it, but it’s nice to have goals and dreams of my own for once.

There are still a lot of dark times; there’s no fix for that. But for the first time it feels like surviving them is an option—an option I really want, no matter what happens with Peak today, or anybody else for that matter. So that’s new.

I run my hands through my hair and sit up a little straighter. I don’t know how it will go when she gets here, but I miss her. Now that I’m sure I’m not just trying to fill up my empty spaces with her love, we all—meaning my therapists and me—thought it was probably okay to respond to the text she sent me the other day. We even had a plan for if she didn’t text again after my response, which would have sucked but also been okay.

But I’m so glad that she did.