But he didn’t show. So I texted him, Yo. I’m here, where are you? No. I’M here. Where are YOU? I turned around in a circle. Are you pranking me? I’m at the police station. I texted you earlier to meet me there. You did not. And then I scrolled through my messages, just to make sure. I have no mes...
There are little explosives hidden all around me and I don’t know where it’s safe to step. I’m afraid of triggering something. A picture, a trinket, someone else’s happiness. Everything feels dangerous. The closet is a huge paper bag, helping me not to hyperventilate. I’m trying to breathe slowly...
She collects her textbooks and her swim bag as slowly as possible, in no rush to get where she needs to be. Well, that’s not true. Danielle should be at swim practice with Hope. But she’d been instructed not to go to the pool. Everyone in English had looked up when Principal Colby knocked on the ...
One of the two heavy oak doors, each with the Ross Academy crest inset in stained glass, had been propped open. There were only enough students inside to occupy the first few rows of stiff, uncomfortable seats, and the emptiness gave the place a hollow sound that surely made the freshmen feel eve...