Prologue

“It was like this place was the only place I knew where everyone can be who they want to be, who they really are. No pretentions at all. And for a minute, I didn’t wanted this moment to end. I never knew that fun could be this fun. These all came by surprise. Fuck! And now, I am starting to swear in my head again. Not because I hated it. Not because I don’t enjoy these things. I swear because I felt pleased and perfect for the first time. I have never smiled like this before.”

Tristan Anderson is an ordinary teenager born from a wealthy family. With no father and mother, he was raised by the caretaker of their house, Lily, whom he treated as her mother. Trying to run away from his life, he wanted to discover things. Things he never had the chance to enjoy. At the young age of seventeen, he found out that he was battling a tumor in his head that caused him brain cancer, that he has a year left to live. Then comes Allison Harvard, daughter of a preacher and reverend, who works at a local grocery store to support her studies. As their world collides, their indifference were put to a test. A guy who hated the world and only wanted to die and a girl whose inspiring words and smile gives a bright light of hope. Enter the world of first love, sex, alcohols and cigarettes. The Precious Diner. Saturday parties and Sunday worships. Hospital beds and therapies. Of acceptance and bullying. Lesbians with tattoos. Persons trying to fit in. And the world of discovering who you really are and what it really means to be alive.

A poignant tale of life, death and the love that comes in between, The 8th Wish is a story of a young boy trying to navigate through hatred and tears, with unexpected twists and turns, spiritual and inspirational passages, proving that there is more to life and love that what it seems.