33 Chapter 33

The rest of the day was similar to first period. Even in the hallways, kids I didn't really even know came up to me and asked if I knew anything else, anything different than what they'd heard. One girl reported that Sidney, one of my sister's friends, had passed out at the funeral. I didn't think that was true. Someone else said that Jack had screamed at the coffin as they were lowering it into the ground and then punched a tree. I was pretty sure that my sister would've mentioned that, although there was a lot that was going unreported, at least to me, lately.

"Why can't anyone think of another topic to discuss?" Emma asked before taking a bite of her sandwich. She had the same thing for lunch every single day. Ham and cheese sandwich, Cheetos Puffs, apple, bottle of water, Little Debbie Zebra Cake.