As I sat down I quickly got on my phone and sent a message to everylittle that was graduating that day.'The camera for your photo is rigged with somet...ing, close your eyes whenthey take it or something bad will happen!'I was careful not to be seen as I sent it, but grateful that as littlescame across the stage it seemed everyone followed that advice. There wereonly thirteen littles from my class that had even made it to graduation -ten of them were my Lambda Delta Pi sisters. One odd boy. “Is it true?” I half-scream, capturing the attention of the whole canteen.“Jesus, Beth, what the hell?” he says, astonished.“You said you were going to the prom with me, then I hear you’re going with someone else. Were you planning on telling me? I thought you were my best friend!”“What’s the big deal? Like it’s any concern of yours!” he yells, standing up to face me.“But I…” I start, but he interrupts me.“You’re so needy, Beth. Grow up!” he shouts.I pale, unable to believe he just said that. I. We wanted to go fro pizza at 3PM and I asked her what else she had in mind:ME: After eating, what else would you like to do?ESME: We should go to the museum, it is close.YO: I like that, why do you want to go to the museum?Esme: I want to show you some history about the human body.I was already finding out what she wanted to say, so we stopped texting and went to sleep. Saturday morning arrived and she texted me some nice pics of her, I patiently waited for 3 PM and I found her on the bus stop,. Red hot blood flushed her face and she pushed herself up. Gravel clung to her cheek and she brushed it away.“I’m going,” she shouted towards Taylor. Taylor managed to free a hand from mauling Blaze’s chest and waved her goodby.K.T. gathered up her board under one arm and stomped off towards home. It was dark out but the acid orange of street lights ate away at the night. K.T. moved from orange oasis to orange oasis. Above the sky was a washed out black. The city’s lights killed all but the.