It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?