Life at school found a strange new normal in the weeks that followed. A new history teacher took over Callahan's classes, younger, nervous, clearly aware he'd inherited a room with a complicated history he hadn't been part of. The rumors eventually thinned out, replaced by newer, smaller dramas the way high school always moved on to the next thing, whether or not the last thing had actually been resolved for the people who'd lived through it.
Nathan found he didn't mind being known, briefly, as one of "the kids who got Callahan fired." It wasn't the kind of attention he'd ever wanted, but it came with something he valued more than comfort: the quiet, unmistakable sense that noticing the crooked thing and refusing to look away from it had actually mattered.
Sasha's parents took longer to
