CHAPTER 24ROCHELLE
December 19, 2090
I woke up tucked under a warm blanket on the couch, unable to remember how I got there. Sitting up, I rubbed my eyes and stared at my math book and literature notes scattered across the coffee table. Disoriented, I turned to the bay window where snowflakes fell from a still light sky. I had been working on homework with Todd and Max but couldn’t remember them leaving or when I had fallen asleep.
Still groggy, I slid my blanket aside, and as I sat up, felt the folded note in the back pocket of my jeans. Earlier in the afternoon, I had been across the street with Lareina. Over the past week, she had been teaching me how to open padlocks with paper clips, slide objects out of pockets without being noticed, and generally escape dangerous situations. I me
