I kept blinking at the page, thinking:
"Oh, he can't be dead. He's just...knocked out or something..unconcious...she's just riling us up...making us jump...I hope..."
But it said he was
dead. And I just looked at the page and I kept reading, as if I wanted to be confused but already knew what I knew.
Does that make sense?
I didn't cry until the second time I read it, since it didn't register very well in me the first time. But I was reading it to my 10-year-old sister Emily, and I couldn't keep my voice from shaking.
I think it's so sad, but really, I mean--people die. That's a part of life. And since no one had died YET *before #4, you were thinking...SOMEONE is going to sometime. And it just happened to be Cedric.