Cass’s Monday started like most: the hum of the school building, the clatter of lockers, and the low murmur of students bustling from class to class. But there was a quiet thrill under her skin, an unfamiliar sense that today might hold something different.
Lena walked beside her, animated as always, recounting a ridiculous story about her little brother, and Cass laughed. It was effortless, not the forced smiles she usually carried around.
“Don’t get too excited yet,” Lena whispered as they rounded the corner near the science lab. “You might walk into a wall or worse Marvin.”
Cass groaned. Marvin Woods was inevitable, but right now, she tried to push him out of her thoughts. She had bigger things to think about. That leadership poster she had spotted earlier? It lingered in her mind. S
