August

it was the first day of 6th grade Ms. Yvette’s classroom smelled faintly of pencils and loneliness. She didnt know anyone, So naturally she sat at the back, alone, holding her books, wishing she could disappear into darkness By a stroke of fate—or cruel joke—she realized she had all the exact same classes as Mason. The boy she had technically met in fifth grade when he was captain of something (she could never remember what). On the third day, she found herself pretending to dislike him, teasing him and more even though her heart Flinched every time he talked to her. To make things even more complicated, her first-period teacher for the quarter just so happened to be Mason’s mom. The universe hated her. Casandra had to learn to live life alone stuck with mason and her uncontrollable heart!