It’s like every call is saving someone’s life, but also, not really. My best friend, Dalma, looks up from her phone. That marketing is working because people are lining up to the information booths as if a new iPhone is on sale, all to talk to the Death-Cast customer service reps. It’s almost like the product that Death-Cast is pushing is time itself. The hourglass is almost full, signaling the End Day calls that will begin at midnight. Every screen has been replaced with a digital black hourglass with a radiant white background. These jumbotrons are always promoting a million things at once, everything from soda products to TV shows to new web addresses, but not tonight. It’s wild how much bank Death-Cast must be dropping across the country. But I’m chill hanging out on this hot summer night for something so historic. I love my city, but you’d never catch me out in Times Square on New Year’s Eve-it’s way too cold to do all that. Of course I’m at the best one-Times Square, the heart of New York and home to the first Death-Cast offices. They’re already underway in so many places, like the Santa Monica Pier in California and Millennium Park in Chicago and the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio and Sixth Street in Austin, to name a few. If I am, at least I’ll know it’s game over, I guess.Īnd that starts with attending a once-in-a-lifetime event: the Death-Cast premiere.ĭeath-Cast is hosting so many parties across the country, I think to lift people’s spirits and get them hyped about this program that will change life and death as we know it. Now I’m just hoping I won’t be one of the first to get an inaugural End Day call. But everything got really real, real fast when the president of the United States held a press briefing where he introduced the creator of Death-Cast and confirmed their abilities to predict our fates. Real life never hooks me up with wins like that. It sounded like the premise of a short story I’d write. Then an organization called Death-Cast appeared out of nowhere and claimed they could predict when-not just if-we’re about to die. JORION PAGAN 10:10 p.m.ĭeath-Cast might call at midnight, but it won’t be the first time someone tells me I’m going to die.įor the past few years I’ve been fighting for my life because of a severe heart condition, straight scared that I might drop dead if I live it up too hard. But be warned, because one of them will be…the first to die at the end. They will though, and romance may or may not ensue. Meet Orion and Valentino, two boys who haven’t yet met. You’d be more prepared for the level of heartbreak to expect, sure, but this can be your first introduction in the Death-Cast World. Now, you don’t have to have read that book to start reading this one. That’s right, we’ve got a sneak peak for The First to Die at the End, the prequel to the heartbreaking They Both Die at the End. To 2010 to be exact, to the first night of Death-Cast calls. Get your tissues ready readers, because we’re about to take you a bit back in time.
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