Chapter 2
I had about an hour and twenty minutes between classes the next day, which was really too short to go all the way home to hang, and I didn’t want to study at the library that day. So I ended up texting my friends, Ruby, Victor, and Landers, to meet me for coffee at a nearby Starbucks.
“You’ve gotten candy and flowers?” Landers asked, pushing his glasses back up from his nose. His name was Seth Landers but for some reason I didn’t know, nobody called him Seth. Even Landers himself.
“Flower.” I took a sip of my latte. “It was a single blue carnation.”
“Hmm.” Ruby tapped a freshly red-painted and manicured nail on her coffee cup. Today she had dyed her once blonde hair burgundy. Not that it had been blond since like junior high.
I’d known my three buddies for years. Back when w
