TEstimated read: about 10 hr 59 mininteractive fictionfunny2 endings
Cass Price and Elliott Caldwell have spent a lifetime crossing the five houses between them. As Cass prepares to leave Grapevine for music school in New York, Elliott hides a terminal illness and pours everything he cannot say into an animated film made for her. At the final doorway, the reader decides whether love means telling the truth—or letting her go.
A typical path is about 148,260 words. The book’s rough reading-time estimate is 10 hr 59 min. Your pace, pauses, rereading and time spent on choices can make your visit longer. This is not a time limit or a measure of your progress.
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Before you read
What to expect.
Mystery none
Intensity a lot
Romance some
Exploration light
Rating reasons
Terminal illness and deathMedical crises and griefUnderage alcohol useRomantic themes and brief safe-sex humor
What to expect
TSerious illness and medical settingsGrief and bereavementAdolescent romantic rejectionUnderage alcohol use
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Both endings include the death of a teenage character after terminal illness.The story includes hospitalization, transplant discussions, oxygen dependence, hospice, funeral, and family grief.The central friendship includes unreciprocated romantic love.
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