Maybe she’d just used up her chances.
“Or maybe,” said the man in the driver’s seat, as if he were reading her mind, “maybe He’ll give you another one.”
Shannon sniffled. She raised the backs of her hands to her face to wipe away tears that weren’t there. There were things she could have done differently, things she could have done better, different choices she could have made, but right then, at that moment, all she wanted was to say good-bye to her parents, to say that she was sorry, as she had in the basement; to say that they didn’t deserve to be hurt like that, didn’t deserve the task of emptying the house of her, her books and her music and her clothes, all except the one dress she would wear to her funeral.
“I’m sorry,” she said again for the last time. She closed her eyes . . . and when she opened them again she was in a hospital bed, tubes coming out of her arms, electrodes on her chest, and a masked nurse was leaning down, saying, “Thank God, honey, we thought we’d lost you!”
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