KIDS → JR. SERIAL Issue 963 · May 31, 2023

Home Ground: Chapter 20

I want to tell her everything, but also I just can’t. And suddenly I’m angry; why am I so far away? Why does it have to be this way? Why, why, why?

Home Ground: Chapter 20

 

Tryouts, or auditions, as they call them here, are overrated.

So we get off classes for an afternoon, big deal.

Instead of sitting in class — where I could doodle or daydream or do my own thing — I’m standing in a crowded hallway, surrounded by hyper, chattering girls, and feeling like the world’s biggest loser for having no one to stand with, or talk to.

I never had anyone to stand with or walk with, never thought I wanted or needed them, but it always felt like my choice.

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