They can and probably will act like it's normal, mostly to try to keep everyone from flipping out. And Dr. Perry kind of helps. Especially with like guilt figuring out next steps.
[...]
Love you. I'm glad we were the ones that found him. I'm glad we were together.
Talking won't change anything that happened, though.
[...] Yeah. I wonder how long he was there and what he was thinking. Could he not get to help? Or was he too scared that if he tried he'd just run into more mimics? [...] Guess it doesn't matter now.
Fern/Hazel
I just don't want to think about his face. Or his stomach.
OrFern/Hazel
Don't talk aYeah. [...] Grades just seem trivial now.Fern/Hazel
[...]
Everything kind of seems trivial.
I want to go homBut if we pass our exams we don't have to get held back at hell school.[...]
Should we have known it wasn't him? Is this our fault? If we had noticed, could we have looked forFern/Hazel
I can't believe we're still having exams.
Fern/Hazel
Guess they can't just give the whole school a trauma pass or something, so. School continues on.
Like Yaeger didn't die horribly in the forest.[...]
Do you want to come see Dr. Perry with me tomorrow?
Fern/Hazel
They can't just act like it's normal.
[... ...] Not really. What good would that do?
Fern/Hazel
[...]
They can and probably will act like it's normal, mostly to try to keep everyone from flipping out. And Dr. Perry kind of helps. Especially with like
guiltfiguring out next steps.[...]
Love you. I'm glad we were the ones that found him. I'm glad we were together.
Fern/Hazel
I don't like people telling me to "work through my feelings" or whatever.
[...] Love you too. Yeah. [...] I'm just glad anyone found him at all.
Fern/Hazel
I wish he had died quickly.
Fern/Hazel
[...] Yeah. I wonder how long he was there and what he was thinking. Could he not get to help? Or was he too scared that if he tried he'd just run into more mimics? [...] Guess it doesn't matter now.
Fern/Hazel
[...]
Yeah [...] guess it doesn't matter. I hope he doesn't end up a ghost or something.
And I hope they don't tell his parents he was out there alive. I hope they lie.
Fern/Hazel
If he was going to, he would have already, right? Then he could have warned us.
Me too. Almost dying in a happy dream last year doesn't seem so bad now.
Fern/Hazel
I guess - I don't know a lot about ghosts, or how you become them. [...] If he could he would have warned us.
That would have been a lot better for him, yeah.