“Emma! I told you to leave that thing!” he shouted.
“Please, sir. Just give me thirty seconds.”
She stepped toward the microphone.
“Before you laugh at him again, there’s something you need to know about the boy in this picture.”
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Emma pulled a folded letter from the cutout’s gown and handed it to William.
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His expression changed as he read it.
“Where did you get this?” he asked quietly.
“It belonged to him,” Emma replied.
The gym fell silent.
“His name was Felix,” she explained. “He wasn’t my boyfriend. He was my twin brother.”
She told everyone that Felix had died two years earlier and should have graduated with them that day.
“He went to this school. He sat in these classrooms and did the same homework we did. I just wanted someone to remember he was supposed to be here.”
