Sitting across from the empty desk, I couldn’t help smiling at the pictures on it. Not because they were funny or not because there was anything extraordinary about them at all. They were just familiar and that meant that I was awaiting yet another lecture that I wouldn’t listen to. Nothing would change, there wouldn’t be an epiphany at the end. I would walk out the same way I walked in, with a smirk on my face.
“Jackson Forrest,” Principal Welker snarled as he entered the cramped office. I