Millions of stars glistened in the gloaming as they watched Cade pull his luggage outside the hotel. He traveled back to the boy’s dormitory. Cade looked at the gate and said, “I’m back, tout le monde.” He returned to the room where he used to stay with the Generals. There was no one inside. Not even traces of their things.

Luke, Lewis, and Liam left the place when Luke was removed from his position as the campus president. From then on, they stayed low-key. They urged themselves to transfer to another school if they could, but they had to wait for the next school year.

Cade remembered all of their...