What I'm Reading
        I am currently reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman. It is about a girl named Mia, who is a cellist in a family full of rock and roll. She is very good at what she does, but she has always felt like an outcast in her own family. When they all pile in the car to go out shopping on a snow day, the unexpected happens. Mia and her family are in an accident. And a bad one at that. Her parents die on impact and within minutes, Mia and her brother, Teddy, are being shipped away to the nearest hospital. Mia is unconscious, but somehow she can see and hear everything going on around her. She is like a ghost, she can walk around the hospital and see her loved ones, but she can't make any noises and she doesn't have any superpowers either.
        Currently in the book, the doctors wouldn't let Adam, Mia's boyfriend, and Kim, (Mia's best friend)inside to see Mia, making Adam and Kim want to get in to see her even more. They create this crazy plan to distract the nurses for just long enough for them to slip in and see Mia. Unfortunately, the head nurse comes in right before they can see her. The head nurse calls for security and the two of them are escorted away. When they come out of the elevator, there is another nurse waiting outside. She threatens to tell the boss that they are taking two people trying to see a girlfriend in critical condition to security. That makes the security guards let them go without much argument. Mia's ghost then realizes that this is Teddy's nurse. Was Teddy's nurse. Just by the look of her, disheveled hair and bags under her eyes, Mia knows. She's alone. Mom and Dad are gone. And now so is Teddy. She begins to wonder if it would be better if she just went as well.