Prologue: Only a Memory

"If you could kill yourself right now, would you?" I asked.

He shook his head. "No," he said, "because suicide means that you've given up on yourself. And I'm not gonna do that."

Isobel cut herself once, just see if it would take the pain away. When her best friend dies, her whole world comes crashing down. While reaching for a razor, she searches for her reason to live. Upon making a new friend, she learns the true value and meaning of what it means to truly be alive.