I force the question to part my lips and Puckett’s sob-broken
reply hits me with unbearable force. There’s been another car accident; a
horrible unforgiving car accident. This time fate had taken a member of my own
class, Emily Susan Setser, the number one member of
our class.
I don’t know what to do. Tears swell my eyes and I go numb all
over. I somehow begin to make my way to my locker as thoughts swarm my brain.
How can this be true? It’s just not possible, not Em.
People are talking to me as I walk down the hall, but I don’t hear them; I only
half see them.