To the friends who have helped me through dark times
CHAPTER ONE On the corner of Whatever Street and I Wish I Didn’t Live Here Lane stands Terence Kato He leans against a stop sign and watches as a school bus rolls by brakes two blocks up and lets on five kids the boy doesn’t know To be honest Terence has no interest in ever knowing them By all rights he ought to be on that bus though He should be seated next to some snot-covered public-school kid who probably wouldn’t know the circle of fifths if it rolled him over But he’s not Of course it’s also true that Terence’s dad should be awake in time to drive his son to his first day at Franklin Middle School But that’s not happening either So instead Terence pushes off the stop sign hitches his bass guitar onto his shoulder and heads around the back of
