Noah

Friday had a pulse to it.

You could feel it the second you walked into Ridgeville High — the buzzing hallways, the teachers pretending they weren’t counting down to the pep rally, the way everyone moved a little faster like the building itself was charged.

Pep rally day.

Game day.

Homecoming week’s unofficial climax before everything spilled into Friday night lights and Saturday dresses and Sunday regrets.

I should’ve been riding the high.

Instead, I was half ...