Title: Out of Reach
Author: Missy Johnson
Release Date: May 8, 2014
My best friend was dying and I was in love with his girl.
Andy and I had been best friends since we were eight-years old.
Andy and I had been best friends since we were eight-years old.
Watching him slowly fade away, ever closer to his final breath, made me so incredibly angry. I knew there was nothing I could do to change it--I had given in to despair, but Andy had not. He had one last hand to play.
He wasn't going to simply sit back and wait for Death to claim him--not Andy. He was going to live life until he couldn't hold his eyes open any longer.
Andy didn't want to die in some sterile hospital and asked me to take him and Emily to the beach. It would be our last road trip together.
Emily. Emily was a problem for me.
I harbored a secret that would have torn our friendship apart. I was in love with Andy's girl, and had been since she'd walked into our sixth grade class, so many years ago.
So what kind of person am I? My best friend is dying, and it's awful--but my heart still aches for his girl. I hate myself for thinking beyond Andy's death and whether there could ever be a future for Emily and I, but I can't help it.
I'm in love with her.
My best friend was dying and I was in love
with his girl.
This was such a sweet, sad story. Seth and Andy had been best friends since
they were young. They were inseparable. Now Andy was dying and wanted to make a few
new memories in his last few weeks. How
could Seth say no? So that is how they
end up on a road trip with Andy's girlfriend, Emily…the girl Seth is in love
with.
The story is told mainly through Seth and Emily's viewpoints
(with a little bit of Andy thrown in), and it focuses on them trying to keep
Andy happy in his last days. The
emotions the author wove into her story were amazing. Each character was individual and unique. Andy loved life and wanted to live it to its
fullest. He was dying – there was no
getting around that – but he tried to always stayed positive rather than just
giving up. Seth was the kind of best
friend everyone wishes he had. He would
have done anything for Andy, and Emily, too. Emily was the best girlfriend a guy could have. She stuck with him through everything, even
though she knew it was not going to end well.
Together these characters made for an incredible story. This is a story of love and friendship, life
and death, courage, sacrifice, and healing that will stick with you. Though it turned out to be a tearjerker of a
story, there were also a lot of fun moments that will have you smiling and
laughing right along with the characters.
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