Chris Whitaker

The Forevers

Mae expected to feel more the first time she saw a dead body.

'I remember the Forevers,' he said, lying back on the bed and pushing his glasses up his nose. 'We did it for the creeps and the weirdos.'

'We're all scared, Mae. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.'

'Jack Sail. You can just call me Sail. Everyone does.'

'You saying that like I'm everyone, Jack?'

'I didn't hear your father complaining last night,' Mae said.

'Lexi's father is dead, Hunter said, glaring.

'I wondered why he didn't seem that into it!'

But there's a fundamental difference between wanting to die and not wanting to live.’

You want me to mess up Hunter Silver? I'll eat her for breakfast. And then I'll go back and eat her breakfast.

Probably some soya-milk bullshit but I'll swallow it down for you.’

‘We're each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.’