Toby
I DIDN’T SLEEP THAT night. Every time I closed my eyes, it was either Callie’s face staring at me from behind my eyelids, or an echo of that humming. What was that sound?
When the sky outside my window turned light enough that I could plausibly call it morning, I got up, too frustrated to try to sleep any longer.
The dormitory floor was quiet, all of the rooms dark except for Julianna’s where a thin line of yellow snuck under the doorway. I hesitated outside it. Jules and I had never been close, and these days she seemed so broken it was hard for anyone to connect with her at all. In that moment, I wanted to talk to her anyway – to question how exactly she had managed to fight Ben – but it was obvious she didn’t know either. Forcing her to talk about it would be cruel.
I stared at
