Lena’s POV

Cole didn’t show up the next day at school or the day after that, and by the third day, it was no longer something people whispered cautiously about. It became an open conversation, one that I wasn’t comfortable with but didn’t know how not to hear the untrue words that were flying around as it was almost everywhere, classrooms and hallways like it was developing its own body part to convey itself faster around the more it was retold.

“Did you hear the star coach hasn’t ...