A half hour later, 17-year-old Rufus is in the middle of beating up a boy named Peck for stealing his girlfriend when he gets his own call from Death-Cast letting him know he’s going to die today. Mateo vows to leave his apartment so he can see Dad (who’s in a coma in the hospital), his best friend Lidia, and Lidia’s daughter Penny before he dies. Future Mateo would get out there and live. He panics-he’s an anxious person and has few friends, and he already misses the Mateo of the future. His herald, Andrea, carelessly mixes him up with the last Decker that she called, so Mateo hangs up. when he gets a call from Death-Cast, an organization that gives people 24 hours’ notice of their death. Patrick “Peck” Gavin, 5:05 p.m.Įighteen-year-old Mateo is scrolling through a blog called CountDowners at 12:22 a.m.
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