Of the five friends, the one who most wanted to die survived, the one who most wanted to live died, and the proudest ended up on their knees, begging for mercy. For three years of high school, they laughed and bickered around one table, turning every hardship into a joke. Then a torrential rainstorm, a cup of milk, and two roads that would never reach their destination took away the two who laughed the most. The three who remained carried on, living out all five of their lives.
