“Hey, have you heard from Hazel?” I asked Daphne again.
After the chaos at the church, no one has heard from Hazel in almost two weeks. At first, we thought she’d be back the second night to perform. However, her understudy had to step in that night and the last night after. Then her parents informed the police when she didn’t come home that night and so on. For the first time, I could see the earth-shattering worry on her mother’s face for her missing daughter, which lurched at my heartstrings.
Daphne shook her head, tugging on her earlobe nervously. “Nope. I thought finals and graduation would make her come back, but I guess not.” She adjusted her backpack as we walked down the hall together, passing Hazel’s locker. “Since everyone saw her running out the auditorium, the police are ta
