Being with Amberly ruined Kire’s mood for the remainder of the day. He kept playing her words over and over again in his head and grew angrier with each passing moment. By the late evening, the anger had spread through his entire body like poison.
Everything from the humming of the air conditioner to the neighbor’s dog barking next door irritated him on an amplified level. To try and manage his anger, he buried himself in books, working on his physics homework and leaving the answers in such an open-ended way that Mr. Loch would have a hard time understanding. After finishing his physics homework, he went to math and drew out a theory of his own to solve an iteration problem.
Kire’s mother called him down for dinner while he was working on his homework. He noticed his father sitting at t
