ELLA
The feeling that hit me the day I stepped out to get groceries hadn’t gone anywhere, which put me in a permanently foul mood.
On my way to school, I walked past some students who were talking in low tones about something, but I didn’t bother to find out what the topic was. On a normal day, I didn’t speak to them, and I wouldn’t try now that I was in a terrible mood.
Whatever it was, I would hear about it when I got to school, or Lyla would meet me at the gate and give me all the details.
She was a cheerleader. Nothing went past her eyes and ears around these parts. If anything, her teammates were part of the grapevine that spread gossip around the school, so she was definitely going to be the first to hear any juicy information from the correct source.
In all honesty, I wasn’t pa
