The sun was a concept alien to me ever since I had moved to Rapid Falls. Every day was a day shadowed by dark clouds. On the brief moments in the afternoon that the sun peeked from behind the drapes of cumulonimbus clouds, it looked like a tame white ball, incapable of heat, incapable of light.
As I lay in bed the following day, repeating the vision I had, I contemplated what to do now that I’d skipped school for two days now. Back in Chicago, rules were rules and if you skipped school for three days in a row, you got a warning call. Two warning calls later, you got suspended. After suspension, you got expelled. Would Rapid Falls High be as strict?
I didn’t care. At this point, I couldn’t give a s**t about anything in the world. Not my missing father, not how my mom and my sister were ad
