CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN

ALEX DAVALO

Worried about her? It feels strange!

"Nadia, at the hospital? What happened!?" I asked, stunned. I wasn’t in school the day it happened. I had no idea what had happened to Nadia until Sandro's girlfriend, Lara, walked over to me that morning after class.

The sun streamed through the large windows of the classroom, casting long shadows across the desks. My classmates were buzzing with gossip, but I had my head buried in my notes, trying to catch up on the classes I missed.

I was still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that Sandro had decided to skip school again; we usually did...