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OutBoise.com | Issue 4.2 | February 2015
Foster: A Serial Drama
Chapter One: Senior Year
by Chance Fuerstinger
Trevor listened to the methodical humming of the engine as the bus turned into the school parking lot, his
eyes closed. The rest of his classmates were quiet, all of them still too exhausted, unaccustomed to the early
morning hours that the start-of-school brought upon them. The bus creaked to a halt, and the door opened
with the sound of expelling air. Trevor waited for the rest of them to traipse off lethargically before he began to
move.
The atmosphere inside the school was much more cheerful than it had been on the bus. Now that
friends were reuniting, they were all fervently whispering to one another, sharing their summer adventures
and already beginning to gossip about their peers.
Trevor’s stomach did a somersault when he saw Jack’s face bobbing through the sea of students.
“Hey, bro!” Jack said, slapping Trevor on the back and pulling him into a tight embrace.
“Hey,” Trevor said.
He and Jack had become best friends in kindergarten and they had practically been inseparable ever
since. Trevor spent most of the summer at Jack’s house, a sanctuary from either of his own parents, ten years
divorced.
Jack, alone, had been by his side through some of the hardest times in his life. The divorce, his
mother’s drug abuse and subsequent rehab, his father’s remarriage to a woman who was, there was no other
word for it, a horrible bitch. He had even encouraged Trevor to seek counselling for depression. Jack was always there for him. But there was one thing that Trevor was too afraid to tell even him.
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