The days leading up to the race had been weird for Ethan.

For starters, Zara had practically disappeared. Not in a dramatic missing-person type of way, but just vanished from his day-to-day. He saw her once, maybe twice, in the morning during class lineup. But that was it.

And the strangest part was that no one really seemed to notice.

Except him.

Okay, and maybe Noah, but Noah didn’t say much about it. He’d just shrugged and mumbled something about her "needing some time off" as if it was ...