Bianca

I was lying on my stomach on the bed, humming to Billie Elish’s ‘Lovely’ as I did a Sudoku puzzle. I was at my wit’s end and only doing puzzles kept me engaged.

Life, I sighed, was dead boring. Here I was, waiting to attend college, meet people my age and get a degree.

I stared up at the ceiling, brooding.

What would happen at the end of the year, the thought popped up in my head and I felt a sense of impending glom descend over me.

The Masters, ...