| On
the way home from a basketball game one night the two couples are driving
on a deserted country road. Suddenly another car filled with teenagers
comes up behind them, riding their bumper. Tucker slows down and the car
passes them, then slows down so Tucker has to as well. Annoyed, Tucker
speeds up to try and pass them, and the next thing Trisha knows she lying
in the snow, dazed and in shock. The car stereo is blaring and she can’t
find her friends.
For most of high school now
it’s been the four of them – best friends Trisha and Christina, and their
boyfriends Cody and Tucker. Lately however, it’s been getting harder and
harder for Trisha to tolerate the way Tucker treats her friend. He gets
angry when Christina talks to other guys, he wants her to spend all of
her free time with him, and worst of all he is trying to talk Christina
out of attending an out-of-state college that has offered her a scholarship
because then they’ll be apart. The week before Valentine’s Day Trisha finds
out that Tucker is planning to ask Christina to marry him. To her it’s
not a romantic ideal however, but more of a trick on Tucker’s part to keep
Christina close by, and she hopes Christina can see through it.
Unfortunately, Tucker never
gets the chance to propose. On the way home from a basketball game one
night the four of them are involved in a terrible car accident. Trisha
is injured, Cody is in a coma and Christina is killed. Trisha and Christina
have been best friends since seventh grade. They never imagined life without
the other in it. And now Trisha is without Cody as well. Lonely, devastated
and still in shock, the survivors struggle to put their lives back together.
Susan Dunn (Colorado
Blue Spruce Children's Award) |
