I felt it all at once. All the sadness and grief and confusion. It all came rushing to me the second I woke up, tears rolling down my cheeks as my heart began to beat faster and faster and faster. Today was November fourth.

Cam's birthday.

It was her eighteenth birthday and she wasn't even here to celebrate it. She wasn't here to jolt awake as I burst into her bedroom too early in the morning wishing her a happy birthday. She wasn't here for me to see her face light up with happiness as she opened the gift I would have spent hours at the mall looking for just...