I hardly knew you. You always said you loved me, but I don't think you really knew me either. Do you remember the first night we met? You were hanging out with us, before break. I was happy about heading off to do something other than school, so were you. You wanted to sit near me, I'd move and you followed me. I always wondered if you noticed that. Do you remember what I said to you? You thought you were asking me out and being suave about it. I thought you were being creepy. You thought...

Thomas watched the guard from behind the bars of the cell. The man was irritating him with his constant pacing, and Thomas felt his fingers twitching with the desire to force him to be still. He longed for a knife, a gun, anything to make the guard stop. “Something wrong, sir?” he drawled instead. Maintaining his relaxed posture he clenched his fists to hide the reflexive twitching. His lanky legs stuck out in front of him, still clad in the grease stained pants he’d been we...

I sat in confused silence, staring at my desk. All around me were people missing, people who should have been there, who would have been there on any normal Monday. They should have been filling the room with their chatter about upcoming parties and shopping trips. They should have been there, laughing at the thought of death and reveling in their immortality. But they weren’t. And the few who remained said nothing. We sat in silence, desks separated, with not a word to say between us. We cou...