Chapter Nine
Rachel woke up to her phone buzzing like crazy. She opened it to find a flurry of texts from her friends, all excited to see her, but curious as to what happened and why she disappeared for a few days. Suddenly, she began to feel nervous about going back to school. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all, she thought to herself. Maybe Benji was right? Maybe she should have stayed with him. Then, she began to miss him terribly. She wished she had been a little nicer to him on the ramparts where they last spoke, but there was nothing she could do about it now. She had to forge on; she had to go to school.
As she got out of bed, she saw the sun was beaming through her drawn blinds. Part of her wanted to open her blinds and look out the window, but the other part of her kne
