I was the sort of person who thoroughly enjoyed riding as a passenger during car rides. Not that I’ve had the chance to drive a car, yet--no one really needed a license back in the city--but there was something utterly soothing about letting your mind drift alongside the racing backdrop through your window. The fire-dyed treetops had nearly shed all their leaves at this point, covering the passing forest floor with a wet decay that signaled the end of October.
The end of October. God, it felt like the longest month of my life, and it still wasn’t over yet.
“You sure you wanna go today, Aria?” Aiden’s voice pulled me out of my head, making me suddenly aware that we’d been parked for quite some time. I glanced between the highschool’s front doors and the driver himself, fixated on me wi
