Maybe Things Would be Better
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"Everything was falling apart. Mama was about to die, my brother wouldn't even speak to me, and now I was constantly being watched by something much more sinister than the government."
James Hidaka, an unusually intelligent, bored thirteen-year-old in his sophomore year lets his curiosity get the best of him when a school bathroom proves to be of interest. As he investigates the anomaly, his family seems to be drifting further and further from the world, especially his mother. Then, before his very eyes, everything in his life seems to explode all at once, leaving his home and school life devastated and himself on the verge of losing it. As terrible of a way this was to learn a lesson, perhaps this was the eye-opener he needed in learning that there's more to the world and other people around him that he can see.
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