Gabriela glanced at her phone in her lap, impatiently tapping with her foot while waiting for the last two minutes of the class to drag their feet to the finish line. Her brother had been blowing her phone with messages, urging her to hurry up to the cafe the moment her class ended as if the world was ending. He didn’t explain what was going on and stopped responding when she told him her class was almost over.
The moment the bell ran, she was ready to jump off her seat and run outside, but the teacher insisted on giving them homework and refused to let anyone go until they wrote it down. When she finally dismissed them, Gabriela flew out of the room, throwing her bag over her shoulder only to be met with another obstacle.
Two hands steadied her to her feet as she staggered backwards a
