Chapter 84

Emma’s POV

Nothing mattered anymore.

Not the curfew, not anything.

Lily was gone. A joke, a really big joke.

I sat, almost lifeless myself, outside the hospital.

I was having trouble connecting it all. Life was cruel to me. I kept mulling about how horrible my existence was, stopping only to laugh when my brain made the cruel joke that I no longer had to avoid her. She was gone. The universe had done my job for me.

It was even funnier to think that I had wished only about two hours ago, to never see her again.

I felt like shit. The air in my lungs was stuck, and breathing got increasingly difficult.

I thought I was done with the hardest part of the night when we had all those confessions, or confrontations, whatever. Only for that to happen.

“Please let’s go home.” Chase broke into everyone else’s mourning.

I cuddled her brother, and he rested his head on my chest.

The little boy was a little too fatigued, and