Kyoline thought she was handling it, but Kyoline knew she had lost her train of thought. Who on earth were the kids she was hanging around with who were doing things like this? Kyoline thought she knew all her friends, and they weren't the kind to be doing things like running. Deborah must have fallen in with a different crowd—and they didn't sound like a very nice crowd.

Kyoline had gone through a lot with all that had happened with her mom and her line of loser boyfriends, moving home to the new apartment and then here, but she was managing, or so it had seemed. Had Kyoline relied on...