"No..." Jessica said absentmindedly as she tried to focus on the question being posed. "No." she repeated more firmly as she saw the golf club in Aileen's hand. The word "us" would have worried Jessica more, but she was more focused on the one person immediately in fron...

(Jessica Murphy continued from WonderWander ) It'd been nearly two days since she'd seen Garrett.  Her vomit-stained shirt and her pants hung a bit looser on her now. She was hungry, but had been limiting herself to one bar a day, despite knowing that her body wanted more than that. She didn't want ...

Jessica let out a short laugh at Adam's joke. Yeah sure, Adam as a secret agent. She didn't know him too well but the thought of him, heck pretty much anyone at their school, taking out African warlords was funny in itself. Although she wasn't sure whether she approved of the idea of not having any ...

Jessica didn't feel the need to be introspective though. She knew what she wanted to do. If she was uncomfortable she would change but she wasn't so what was the big deal? Adam had a point too. Jessica saw the good in people doing things for people that actually thought it was the right thing. But t...

Jessica was rather surprised to hear Sophie say that she'd play guitar in public rather than work. She'd always assumed that the people playing instruments were homeless people looking for money, or people who had at least tried to find something else, or professional musicians who were having troub...

Sophie was going to school for art. Which that made a lot of sense, she could see that Sophie had a sketchpad out. Of course some people just did that as a hobby. Adam mentioned there would probably be some family trip for him, although he didn't sound too excited about it. "Oh but family trips...

She got a few more pages into the book. She just wasn't feeling it, maybe it was being outside. She normally read inside so maybe the outdoors just had too much going on that distracted her. She would probably go on for another page or two just to make sure that she wasn't in the mood. After all, wh...

Jessica finally found the page she had left off on while Adam and Sophie were engaged in small talk. Adam's homework sucked apparently. That wasn't good, but then again, that'd be over in a short while. Well, unless Adam went to college. She had no idea if he was or not, but she didn't want to assum...

(Jessica Murphy continued from Debates and Discourse ) A free period was awesome, at least in Jessica's opinion. It was a chance to work on some of her homework, or at least it was most days. Today she didn't have any that required her immediate attention. Her paper on Fahrenheit 451 wasn't due unti...

(Enter Dan Liu ) Dan normally didn't show up this early for school, but there was a track meet in two days and his times had been slagging lately. That wasn't okay. He needed to get his times up, especially in the 200 meter dash. Sure, his best event was the 100 meter, but 200 meter was still his th...

There wasn't another occasion to contribute. The bell rang, but that was okay. She'd just talk up more another day. It wasn't a big deal.

(Jessica Murphy continued in See with Eyes Unclouded by Hate)

Jessica wasn't the best with biblical references. Her parents weren't too focused on teaching her about the good book. What the others had said seemed to make sense though, as far as she could tell. Faber and Montag really couldn't have gotten anything done without the other. That much was obvious, ...

Jessica could tell Bradley had the right idea. Well duh, they were in agreement. But he realized that people just couldn't sit around and do nothing because they chose to. Like she said, someone had to keep society running, even if they didn't really want to. Then Mike joined in again, noting argume...

(Jessica Murphy continued from It's Cold Out Here ) Jessica didn't agree with Colin much at all. Supporting a government that kills people with no trial and tried to limit knowledge wasn't one she could support. Did no one remember Nazi Germany? They were very interested in burning books. Course, sh...

Things weren't improving to say the least. Sure, there were only a couple months left in school, but physics made it feel like it was years. Lord help her get through it all. Teachers were insane, trying to fit in stuff that they had meant to do in the previous months, but hadn't. Sure, stuff like t...