Setting
End of Sam and Juliana’s junior year - to their senior year in San Francisco, California
Main Characters
- Juliana (Julie/Jules) Elise Michaels: g black hair with a touch of reddish brown, olive skin, big dark brown eyes, same as Sam in height and build, exactly opposite in color like light and dark, has cancer, goes through chemotherapy, great at dancing, courageous
- Samantha Jefferson Russell: ambitious, determined, no one ever kept her from anything she wanted to do, she outlast any kind of opposition, stubborn, pale skin, thick white-blonde hair, huge blue eyes, like a colt, skinny, long-legged
- Sam and Jules: are best friends dance students since freshman year, they understand each other connected in a way
- Jack : Julie's
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The next day they have to go to dance rehearsal and Jules has very bad pain in her hip and back. As a result, Jules has to stop dancing for a while and she goes to a specialist to help her after seeing many other doctors who tells Juliana and her family that she has stage 4 cancer. Sam, Juliana, and her family were devastated, crying about the bad news. Jules begins to feel that her mother and Sam are the only ones who see her as the same person. Everyone else treats Jules differently. Sam continues to be by Jules side but as Jules gets further into chemotherapy, she begins to distance herself from Sam. Jules attitude and mood changes for the worse. The two friends gradually start to not care about each other and they don't understand each other as much. When Sam goes on a vacation with her mom and her moms boyfriend, she meets a guy named Paul. The two begin to go out with each other and they eventually create a relationship. Jules has been thinking about stopping chemotherapy because it has been holding her back from living her life. She finds out that the treatments she has been receiving are not making the cancer go away so she decides to quit chemotherapy. Though chemotherapy is over, Sam and Jules are still distant. Jules starts hanging out with her other friends from dance class and Sam spends most of her time with Paul. They both blame each other for this distance and they get into a fight. Jules condition worsens dramatically after she stops chemotherapy, so she has to go back to the doctors. The doctor wants Jules to go back on chemo and after thinking a lot, Jules agrees only because the doctor said she wouldn't lose her hair and she would be able to dance this time. As Jules' sickness continues, Paul officially breaks up with Sam, Sam has more fights with her mom, she is doing bad in school, and she still hasn't been talking to Jules for a while. Jules finds out