Mercy

Mercy is haunted by the ghost of her 14 year old boyfriend Jace who killed himself after school one day. She thinks of him all the time. Her first boyfriend. The first boy her father had found her with, hands under shirt, over bra, not under bra, because Jace didn't think that way, he was a nice boy, a troubled boy, that's why he liked Mercy, because they were the same he said, don't you know.

When the word got out around school, the whole building became a mosoluem. Mercy's best friend Shandee left without even signing out or getting a note or permission, she took Mercy with her, they had their Moms calls the school later. There was no thinking going on, no learning that day.

It was the same when the bomb threat happened to school. Mercy had so many absences that she couldn't miss the day, the school district did not cancel classes, Mercy had to show up. When she arrived, there were cops and metal detectors and people searching backpacks, bags. Every single exit had police at it. There was no way anyone would get into the school with weapons. When it was Mercy's turn, the principal himself went through her bag.

Do you have any weapons on you, Mercy?

Well, if Huckleberry Finn is a weapon?