Chapter 32: A Private Education
I had a second dream, which was more soothing than the first.
East Templeton High School was exactly how I remembered from a dozen or more years ago. The library with its tinted windows sat to the left, and the gymnasium sat to the right, a red brick structure that was three stories high. A yellow and blue flag, Templeton’s colors, hung on the gym from a large pole, sharing three words in white: Courage, Strength, Knowledge. Between the two buildings was a third, which was five stories high and consisted of a cafeteria and forty classrooms for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Patrick pulled me inside the dark library. The place was empty because it was summer. How he had a set of keys to its two side doors was a mystery to me, but then again, t
