Clare and I walk towards the green house where going to have breakfast. As soon as when got close I noticed something odd, luckily Clare was looking at me instead of ahead.

"Eli what are you-"

I grabbed her arm and spun her around. "Don't look! Just go find a teacher and call 9-1-1 okay? Go." Out of the corner of my eye I saw her turn to look. "Clare now!"

As soon as she was gone I walked closer. I could feel bile come up in my throat but I suppressed it. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, Cam Saunders, ice hockey star, he was dead.

The rest of the morning was a blur of cops and doctors. By the end of it I was on auto pilot. They kept asking questions but my brain was still processing it all. They finally let me go around lunch and I was ready to get out of there.

"What did it look like?" Dave asked as we were leaving school. "Cam's body?"

"It looked like a dead kid."

"Did it smell?"

"Yeah, like oregano and petunias, I wasn't up close and personal with it."

"You know my dad sees dead bodies all the time at work, it's messed up. I mean he must have been so sick to do something like that, like, how do you even get your head there?"

"So how does your dad deal with the things he sees?"

"I don't know, I guess he just doesn't take it home with him, he forgets."

"Wish my brain worked like that."

"Are you gonna go to the vigil?"

"Um, Clare is, but um, I'm pretty wiped, I'm probably just gonna go home."

While I had every intention of going home I ran into Jake and Jake happened to have some pot that was calling my name.

"I'm surprised you didn't go to the vigil." I said as Jake skated into the sitting room with a bowl of popcorn.

"Well I- I didn't want to complicate things for Katie. Hey I, uh, I drizzled some caramel on there."

"Nice."

"Hey, uh, you know if you hadn't found Cam, it probably would have been me, so, thanks for that."

"You are welcome good sir."

"Is my garden gonna be haunted now?"

"Nah, just me."

After that we played some video games with Jake wearing his ridiculous oven mitts while everyone else was at the vigil.