He wasn’t going there for closure.
He arrived with a plan.
A plan that would leave every single person in that room speechless.
And judging by the look on their faces when he walked through those doors…
Nobody could have imagined what he was about to do five minutes later.
PART 2
I have to tell you what those ten years actually held, because the boy who drove to that reunion was not the boy who left that school.
The year after graduation was the hardest.
Daniel had no friends, no confidence, and a stack of rejection letters from the colleges his tormentors had gotten into easily. He worked at a hardware store in our town, Cedar Hollow, and he was quiet, and I worried about him the way you worry about a candle in a draft.
But Daniel had one thing that all those years of cruelty had, without meaning to, forged in him.
