While Sasha and Elijah had reconnected online just before her death, they had never met in person, and Sasha had chosen not to reveal her diagnosis to her brother. Elijah wasn’t adopted as a child and spent his life in a group home after he and Sasha were given up by their addicted parents. Elijah shares the same piercing eyes as his sister but that was all they shared. Once there, Raquel meet’s Elijah, Sasha’s long lost older brother. Raquel’s, or Rocki as her best friend liked to call her, world is once again upended when she receives a card in the mail instructing her to go to the cemetery and wait by Sasha’s grave. Sasha had never liked Zack, and Raquel finally ends the relationship after Sasha’s death finding solace in a new job at Izzy’s, the local flower shop. While Sasha was adored by her adoptive parents and her high school classmates, and all are reeling from her death, Raquel soon realizes that she won’t find support from her boyfriend Zack who just wants her to move on. Raquel supports her friend during her grueling illness and is by her side on a sleepover in Sasha’s home when she takes her last breath. Things take an unforeseen turn for the two friends when Sasha is diagnosed with lymphoma and the teenagers are forced to deal with terminal cancer and young lives cut too short. Raquel and her best friend Sasha have spent their lives together in their small Texas town and they are inseparable BFFs. I see the lost boy he used to be, the wholeness he found in Sasha. Our eyes meet, and for the first time since that day in the cemetery, I see Elijah staring back at me, not Sasha. “I’m glad you’re not mad,” I say, reaching for another blade of grass. Instead, she’s left us this enormous keepsake to cherish forever.”
It would have been a fleeting relationship and it would have hurt like hell. Even if I had met her in the few months before she died, she’d still be dead now. “She’s making sure I know her, and that’s all that matters. “It’s okay,” he says, leaning back on his hands. I bend down and pluck a long blade of grass, then begin breaking it into bits. “It’s the greatest gift she could have given us,” I agree. “I can’t believe she put all of this together, while she was fighting cancer no less.” “My sister was a really cool person,” Elijah says, breaking the silence.
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