24 Trinity I sat at a table in the corner by myself, watching the world exist around me. I didn’t want to participate. Participating was what got me there. Participating was what made me think things were good. I was a fool. It’d been almost a week since the party, and I hadn’t heard from James. The rumor was he left. I didn’t know where he went, but he was gone. Run out of his own town by me. No one came out and said that last part, but the looks I got told me that’s what everyone thought. It was all my fault. So, I hid in the corner and drank. I sat there and pretended I was a part of something I no longer was because I only had one option. I had to move. He finally did it. Officer James Rucker finally ran me out of town. And not because he was so horrible and cruel, but because he

