Status: tentatively rated r.
The Forever Year
Riverside, Vermont. March 2013.
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL:
HOME OF THE RIVERSIDE VIKINGS.
The sign outside of the school reads the same as it always has; the students file into the school as they have for months. The seniors are antsy, waiting for the graduation that will occur in May as the younger students look up at them in awe. Each and every person within the walls is moving through their routine, thinking that this day will go on just as the last and that the next day will be just the same.
March fifteenth is no exception. At least, it wasn't, until lunch rolled around.
Two hours is all that it took to derail hundreds of lives.
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL:
HOME OF THE RIVERSIDE VIKINGS.
The sign outside of the school reads the same as it always has; the students file into the school as they have for months. The seniors are antsy, waiting for the graduation that will occur in May as the younger students look up at them in awe. Each and every person within the walls is moving through their routine, thinking that this day will go on just as the last and that the next day will be just the same.
March fifteenth is no exception. At least, it wasn't, until lunch rolled around.
Two hours is all that it took to derail hundreds of lives.
- in which the minutes are counted and it is t-minus 1-4-4-0
- a-a-are you ready for the big day, darling?
- and i guess we just hit bottom from here or maybe we've got a ways to go
- black cherry red paints our home and we won't sleep there tonight
- the idea has sparks and this is where the time of our lives begins
- the guilt and remorse and aftermath will eat us like maggots
- in times like these, normalcy is hard to come by.
- leave your story for the news, i don't want a word of it
- what you sought brings what you deserved
- sweetness comes as a goodbye