Chapter 72: January

They’re called seasons. We have four of them. Winter, spring, summer and autumn. – Aramis

“Miss, what did you get for Christmas?”

It was the first day back after the holidays and the kids were just as eager to show off in high school as they had been in elementary school. Evie knew that trying to do anything during homeroom was useless. The plan was just to keep the kids from killing each other.

“Mr. Turner, I’m not sure if it counts, but I got a house.”

“Man, I just got a new skateboard.” The boy said before turning his attention to the kids sitting around him.

It was homeroom. There were no assignments. No curriculum. Or standardized tests. It was just a way of splitting the school for lunches. A third went to lunch and then class, the middle third had lunch in the middle and the remaining teachers, like herself, went to class and then lunch.

Miss Walter had been behaving so far. But it was also only the first day back. And Miss Lowery was not in class. She could burst through t