Paul and Phoebe: Collections Blurb

They meet by chance; Paul was sitting on the railing of the bridge when Phoebe sees him, going out there for the same reason. 

Surviving the car crash that killed her parents when she was nine, her brother took her in and beat her as a daily punishment. 

Estranged from his family, it was his fault his baby sister was now dead. 

He's filled with doubt, she's at peace with her choice. 

Being blunt, she asks if he wants to jump together, she lived a lonely life and it would be nice if she didn't die alone; the thought makes him second guess his decision to come out to the bridge. 

He makes her an offer:First day of summer is in three days, they make a bucket list and spend the summer doing them and then they decide the first day of fall; not before then. He offers her a place to live when she refuses to live at home, she tells him that’s a recipe to be tortured in a basement, but he persuades her to do it anyway. 

They make a list of twenty-five things that they can actually accomplish, the last one being to commit suicide. 

He refuses to help her with number six; to have sex. 

She can't help him accomplish number twenty-four; to fall in love. 

With limits set, she moves in and together they make plans to cross of twenty-three of their items together; a last and dying hope that maybe one summer can change your life. 

Maybe all you need is two people on the verge of suicide and and an insane idea to give each other the will to live.