~Valeria~
The weirdest part about knowing you might die in two days is that you still have to show up for the last day of school and pretend like finals and graduation actually matter.
I was at my locker shoving textbooks into my bag when I heard footsteps behind me. The kind of careful, hesitant footsteps that meant someone was about to either apologize or ask me for something awkward.
I turned around to find Lily standing there, and my first instinct was to check for escape routes because this girl had made my life hell for months.
But she wasn't flanked by her usual crew of mean girls. She was alone, holding something in her hands, looking genuinely uncomfortable.
"Valeria," she said, and her voice was small in a way I'd never heard before. "I need to give you something."
She held
