"Von's dead."
I never expected those words to come out of my mother's mouth. I blinked slowly as if I were a dog trying to understand the 'sit' command. "What do you mean?"
"I mean," Mom replied, her teeth clenched, "he's dead."
"What?" I sputtered, staring at her in disbelief.
She sighed impatiently. "Von died in a car crash. Now get on with life, April. It's not like he meant all that much to you." With that, she spun on her heel and left the room, phone in hand. I continued to stand there, my mouth slightly open.
"He's," I whispered in agony to myself, "dead?"
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the average life of a 13-year-old girl?
Teen Fiction"April showers bring May flowers." April West was living in a pretty normal world. But one day in spring, she meets Von Wolf, an athletic yet academic boy with a ginormous sense of humor. However, over the summer, Von was killed in a major car crash...
