Now he had to go back to school. It was an imperative marching in the back of his mind: Go to school. Hire a detective. Find Alma.   If only Viggo hadn’t told him they had a new lead, he could stay home and sit next to him while they played piano. They could explore music together, explore…life…together.    But he had to find Alma. Some things were rules that governed the soul, and that was one of them. His sister had died years ago, before his far even got sick. They knew she was alive, but she’d been impossible to track down. Now…something had changed. Eddie intended to find…

“VJ.” Giani’s voice pierced through VJ’s day dreams. VJ looked up from his phone. “What?” Giani came and sat beside him. His body sunk through the couch and he rubbed his head, which was sitting a few inches out of the cushion. “Oops.” VJ Laughed. “Oops? You just figured out you’re a ghost?”  “Edvard told you about Riley and Alma, didn’t he?” VJ nodded. “Ja.” “The truth is…” VJ took slow breaths. He’s messing with you. What if he wasn’t? Giani’s pause for dramatic effect lasted too long. Finally, he said with a sigh. “He was telling the truth. We have word from a school, many arrived all at once,…

  Eddie stared out at the green fields, trying to process that Jace — who was too young to have wanted anything close to death, or even understood what dying really meant — had tried to die.   “A few months ago,” Jace said. He shrugged and ran his hand through his hair. “It was stupid.”   “Jace!” How would Jace dying help Gemma?   Why did Eddie think it was Jace’s job to help Gemma?   Eddie put his face in his hands. Jace was allowed to want to die. His life was hard. But that didn’t mean it was a good idea to want to die.    Eddie…

VJ was out of his mind with indecision. The last summer before Eddie’s last year of school was almost over and VJ hadn’t said anything to him. By anything, he didn’t mean it literally. He meant he hadn’t told Eddie how he felt. He hadn’t told Eddie that at some point in the past decade or so he’d fallen in love with him, fallen so madly in love and the only reason he hadn’t crossed the line was because they were family — or supposed to be at least — and what if they broke up? VJ paced the halls of Falkhus. It didn’t help that Eddie was gone all…