Chapter Twenty-Eight
Rever Space Station
Cody used to have panic attacks as a kid. Whenever he faced a stressful situation—a test, a birthday party, a baseball game—he would break out in a cold sweat, and his heart would start racing. Then he met Reggie. A cool kid, by all conventional standards: popular, good at sports, good looking, charming. He had every right to torture Cody the way all the other popular kids did. But he didn’t. His niceness wasn’t an act, either. It was wholly genuine. When he noticed Cody’s attacks, he used that genuine niceness to help. He sat with Cody, talked to him, got him water. He was always calm.
Eventually, Cody stopped having the attacks. He became more confident, more sure of himself, largely because of Reggie’s help. He hadn’t had a panic attack since
