When didn’t feel anything but peace. The eyes of the person in the mirror looked so desolate and empty it was shocking. He was a loner, an outcast. It wasn’t that they didn’t like each other, but Jess and Luke had very little in common these days. Wesley had responded to him! “What am I even doing here? Showered and dressed, he went downstairs to get some breakfast. “Hi”, he replied back. Once they got to school, that was it. It seemed that the lyrics of the song on the radio spoke directly to him, lifting him up, making him feel happy that someone, somewhere understood what he felt. “Who invented these things anyway?” ,he thought as he climbed out of bed. Jess read the e-mail, then shut off his computer and got into bed. The person staring back at him looked so far away, it looked like him, but it wasn’t him.
