Hazel
Saturday arrived without warning and all at once. I woke up to the wrong side of nine, which I had not done in weeks, and lay there for a full minute before my brain caught up with the fact that there was nowhere I had to be.
No alarm. No bus. No corridor scanning.
I stretched out and stared at the ceiling and thought about the week that had just passed. Honestly, it had been fine. More than fine. The kind of fine I had stopped expecting. No Tiffany appearing around corners with her group trailing behind her. No cousin either. Both of them had gone completely quiet and I had no idea where they were and I was choosing not to care. If they had dropped off the face of the earth entirely that would have been ideal.
The principal's resignation had changed something in the school I ha
