Chapter 45

• She resolved as her last class before her lunch period at noon was to arrive that she simply needed to find out if all of the pressure she felt from her life could potentially be unwound by doing something that was so against the norm. The butterflies in her stomach were the kind of nerves she wanted to feel.
• She had decided to go through with it.
• The bell ending the period before noon rang and every student hurried themselves out of their classrooms.