Half of them were watching videos.
Half of them were making videos.
A boy near the back held his phone up and filmed himself saying, “Day in the life, bus edition.”
I nearly pulled the bus over right then.
Instead, I looked at him in the mirror and said, “No filming other students on my bus.”
He rolled his eyes.
“I’m not.”
“You are.”
“It’s not a big deal.”
That phrase.
I hear it all the time.
It’s not a big deal.
A phone number online.
A school logo in the background.
A house key under a mat.
A live location.
A video from an empty house.
A lonely schedule posted with a smiling face.
It is never a big deal until it is.
When Kinsley got on, she looked like she had not slept.
Her hair was pulled back messy.
Her hoodie swallowed half her face.
