Five Feet Apart, Blog #3

This blog focuses on pages 209-276

After what Will had done to Stella, touching her with no barrier between them, he realizes that his feelings have gone too far and has put Stella under too much risk. He decides to leave the hospital and transfer away from Stella. Stella, still heartbroken over Poe, finds out and decides to go out with Will one last time. They meet outside and Stella explains to Will that she wants to visit the city of lights she always saw from her hospital room window. The two set out in the freezing cold, walking hand in hand, yet still 5 feet apart. Back at the hospital, the nurses get a call saying that a pair of lungs have been made available for Stella to finally get a transplant. When they try and find Stella, they realize that she isn't there and neither is Will. They try and get ahold of her. While on their walk to the city, they stop at a frozen lake and Stella decides to try and slide around on the ice. She realizes that somebody is calling and texting her phone repeatedly and knows that she can get new lungs but chooses to ignore the calls. At this moment, Will and Stella both confess their love for each other and they both realize they can never have what they want from each other. Will grabs Stella's phone and finds out about the lungs. He urges her to go back to the hospital but she keeps refusing because she knows that the new lungs will keep her away from Will. Stella breaks through the ice and falls through into the cold, water. Her lungs can't keep up and suddenly she sees her dead sister Abby telling her she has to live. Will pulls her out and gives her mouth to mouth, risking everything. He calls for 911 and the hospital sets out to find them. Will, who is trying so hard to get Stella to start breathing again, realizes that his own lungs are giving out. He stops and just lays there, gasping for air. They both wake up in the hospital, Stella fighting against the doctors because she doesn't want the lungs to keep her away from Will. Will forces her to take the lungs and she goes under for surgery. While Stella was under, Will sets up a way to tell Stella that he is leaving him, and that he can't risk her new life with his Cystic Fibrosis. When Stella wakes up, she finds Will outside a window. Will explains that he loves Stella too much to try and risk her life to be together. Will kisses the window (Stella) goodbye. 8 months later, Stella and Will find each other at the same airport, they stand from each other, 5 feet apart.

The ending of this book truly was one of the hardest things to read. To see Will, who loves Stella so much, having to let her go to save herself was amazing to read. Given Will was this cocky, and sarcastic sick boy at the beginning of the book but now he was a soft and open boy who loves Stella so much. The character development overall was the icing on the cake for this book. It made the story better and worth the read.