It all started about a year ago, Johnny was sixteen. It could have been the whole idea of him having a 3.5 GPA last fall that made him excited about going to school again. Yeah, the previous year had been his year. It didn’t matter that he wasn’t in any honors courses or didn’t get all straight A’s his whole life. What mattered was that he was proud of himself, and he was starting to think he could actually be somebody.

Johnny had everything going for him. He was creating solid ground. Maybe, maybe things would stay on track just this once.