Before I Die
By: Sarah Dessen
After Annabelle's sister becomes really sick, her whole family becomes devastated. The change that she is going though is a really tough one. After Annabelle and Kristen hung up from talking on the phone, Annabelle goes back to her room and crawled into bed, sleeping two more hours until she heard the garage door open and knew they were home. When she went downstairs to the kitchen, she could tell her mother was so hurt by what was happening. As she turned around to hug Annabelle, she had never seen her so different. A sudden panic made her want to wrap herself around her, putting herself between her and the world and everything it could do to her, to any of them. And then it happened, her mother started crying. Her eyes welled up, and she looked down at her hands, which were trembling and then she was sobbing, the sound seeming so loud in the quiet of the kitchen. Annabelle didn't know how to handle things, and really I don't blame her. Just think of how hard it would be to see your mother crying and know that there was nothing you would do about it. Whitney's eating disorder corrupted and effected the whole Greene family in a manner that was so life threatening and allowed them not to take life for granted and teaches the reader not to either.
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