He was alone making bracelets at a craft table in the back of the cramped room in the church for summer vacation bible school. The vacation bible school (or vbs) had a bunch of kids and tweens, he was one of the oldest people there at 15 years old. He already made multiple plastic bracelets with black and white beads, all of them collecting up his arm. most of them had his favorite band names; PTV, MCR, Falling in Reverse...

He saw someone his age sit down at his table, his music coming from his phone was so loud, he didn’t see her walk in the room at first. He takes out his earbuds to talk to her, nodding his head to the side to get his hair out of the way.

“Hi, I’m Corey..”