Prompt: atmospheric playlist. flowers blooming outside. assignments and hours fly by. depression, school, heartbreak, Hope....

He looked so disappointed. He’d hardly been caught so I was frozen in my surprise. Mabel stepped out with the same disappointed expression..

There are eight months of accumulated emotional tension relevant to the events of this story.

We were playing our ethnic music rather loudly as we walked behind a commercial area when a marked squad car creeped to a halt behind us...