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Welcome to Folkestone, where people are sometimes only mostly dead.
SUNDAY
Four years ago, I stood barefoot in the rain and learned my big brother was dead. Losing Charlie broke me. The night I almost followed him, Payne Emerson climbed through my bedroom window the way he had a thousand times before and found me on the bathroom floor. He held on until help came, then took the blame so my parents would hate him instead of me.
I’ve loved him for as long as I can remember, which is exactly why I can’t have him. If we fall apart, I won’t survive it.
When someone taps on my window tonight, I’m sure it’s Payne. Instead, I’m face to face with a ghost.
PAYNE
Sunday and I have one rule: knock on the glass, count to five, climb in. I’ve been scaling the oak outside her window since we were kids. The day her parents sent her away, I stood in that bedroom with three words on my tongue and never said them.
Now Charlie Easton is back from the dead, and I can’t stop thinking about what his funeral cost the girl he left behind.
Today Sunday flinched when I touched her, and I’ll wait as long as it takes for that to change. What I won’t do is lose her twice.
A note on dark content: the darkness in Folkestone lives outside the relationships. The heroes are dangerous to everyone except the girls they love.