Lillian Lomeli’s Reviews > They Both Die at the End > Status Update

Mateo and Rufus go to Lidia's house and Mateo visits kind of awkwardly. Lidia realizes that Mateo is a decker but can't call him since he blocked her in order to live his life. Rufus then posts an instagram post to see if his friends can contact or find him. They go on the train again but the lights go off, Mateo get's scared but feels okay with Rufus being there, and eventually falls asleep and Rufus takes a photo.

Mateo tries to talk with people on the site, but they’re all weirdos. Two ask for a one night stand, one is interested in smoking pot, and another one spammed gore videos. So now, Mateo gave up on that. On the other hand Rufus and his family held a death funeral. Where they all said how they feel about him. But then the police showed up.

Mateo gets an app for making friends, and he makes an account. He decides that he’ll decide to spend his last day with a friend. Rufus tries to hang out with his friends and family, awkwardly playing games. Until his ex appears with the boy he beat up.

Rufus is outside the church. He calls his ex Aimee, he tells her that it is his last day. She tells him to stay in the church and not get hurt. But Rufus just goes to his foster home with his friends. We go back to Mateo, he isn’t really doing much except cleaning the house. He chooses what phrase to go on his gravestone. The writing is still pretty bad to me, this update is in the same writing style.

We learn about someone called Rufus. He was beating a kid to death when he got the news. His family died in a car accident and he's the only one left. He is in a foster home with Tagoe and Malcolm, two boys he's became friends with. He laments as well about his inevitable death. He's talking about maybe talking to his ex. This writing is still sort of bad with characterizing character's speech.

Mateo has just learned that today is his last day alive. He laments a lot about how many failed opportunities he had to have a good life. He thinks about how he has no friends or family or much in general to enjoy, he's lived a pretty lonely life. Honestly so far I'm not really a fan of this style of writing, it feels very juvenile.