Apparently, though, these aren’t friends who talk much about the past, so Ella is able to keep up the ruse until she chooses to end it, where the novel again strains credulity by making her revelation go surprisingly smoothly. While the details have been carefully laid out to make the switch plausible, it’s one thing to be able to do your make-up like your twin sister, but wholly another to fit in to someone else’s friend group, complete with hovering boyfriend, without raising so much as smidge of suspicion. By the time Ella’s confusion clears, she is beset by guilt and undone by the fact that many people seem grateful that Maddy survived, so she decides that pretending to be her twin would be giving Maddy back the life Ella took from her.
Waking in the hospital, Ella is drug-fogged and confused about who she is, but Maddy’s boyfriend assures her that she is Maddy.
Twins Ella and Maddy have followed separate paths in high school, and when Ella drives Maddy home late one night, the simmering tension between the two explodes and Ella angrily swerves the steering wheel on the rain-soaked road, an action that results in a crash that takes Maddy’s life.
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