They Granted Her 100 Wishes And Forgot I Was Dying Too novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Zero

Nobody went home that night.

The harbormaster lit a fire in an oil drum at the end of the pier, and the diner woman brought coffee in thermoses.

Two hundred people sat on the planks and on upturned crates, and waited for the sun.

Zero would come with it, the boy said, because the old file said zero came at the first light.

I sat wrapped in three blankets, with my back against Tiernan's chest and his arms around me.

The supervisor had walked down the pier at midnight and looked at the rope, and then at him.

She had untied the rope herself and coiled it on a post, and she hadn't said a word.

My sister sat on my other side with her cold tea in both hands.

The number over her head said 1, and so did mine.

I couldn't see mine over my own head, but it hung in the harbormaster's window, thin and patient.

"Are you scared?" Cora asked, around four.

"Yes."

"Me too."

"If it takes you, I'm going with you," I said.

"It won't take me, you idiot."

"Then why are you shaking?"

"Because I've been told since I was nine that today's the day." She leaned her head on my shoulder. "I don't know how to be somebody who gets tomorrow."

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