Prologue

Home schooling was an adventure, learning responsibilities, and using them to your advantage. Then just when I think this journey is over, I get a message from an old friend I'd known the past year.

The words on that screen made me tremble in fear; an uttered scream wouldn't have done justice to what I saw before me. Not once had I met this boy; hadn't talked to him in weeks, but then on that screen were the words:

"Meet me behind the Safeway at 12:00pm."