The Pact: by Jodi Picoult

The pact is a love story about a girl named Emily and a boy named Chris. Emily and Chris grew up together, thier families were next door neighbors, they spent a lot of time in each other's homes so that it was only natural that they became an item. Emily had her reservations about dating Chris because she thought of him as her brother,but Chris loved Emily, and Emily knowing that her breaking up with Chris would break his heart, didn't break up with him.However when she found out that she was pregnant with his baby, she knew that her only option was to either marry him, because that's what he'd want to do if he knew about the baby or have an abortion and not tell him. One day she decided to end it all, and had turned to Chris for help. Chris helped her,but at the last minute he grabbed the gun from her hand, because he couldn't stand to watch her, throw her life away,but Emily had already made up her mind, she forced Chris to shoot her in the head, she grabbed his gun holding hand and pressed it to her head, and with her hand over his she pulled the trigger, shortly after Chris fainted, and before he knew it he was being hauled off to the ER, a short while later, he was arrested till his hearing. Emily's mother accused Chris for her daughters death, while Emily's father, did not blame him. He supported his mother in getting him out of prison and proving his innonce, which they finally do at the end of the story. However after everything is over, the family are no longer close friends.