Luke stopped long enough to buy a hotdog when he got off work, before going to the shelter for the first of his GED classes. By the time he left there, two hours later, he was both wrung out and feeling like an i***t. How the hell am I going to learn everything I need to know to get my GED? Sure, the teacher said this is a normal feeling, at first, but damn.
As soon as he got downtown, he went to the park where he and Jourdain had been the previous night. Settling on one of the benches under a lamp pole, he took out the study guide and began reading. He was several pages into it, and feeling defeated, when someone sat down next to him.
“You went to your first class, I take it,” Jourdain said, tapping the book.
“Yeah. I’m never going to pass the tests.”
“You won’t with that attitude,” J
