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Chapter 1 Riesh was late. Well, later than usual. He was always running late for his intern job at the computer store. A bad habit of working in a place across town. He couldn’t wait till he was done with school and could work there full time until college. But first, he needed his coffee. Coffee was an essential to working in semi-boring computer store, it kept you awake during the slow parts. But at least it paid well. A sudden elbow in his side had the breath knocked out of him, as a shoe stepped on his untied lace and he tripped, falling head over heels, causing the other person to trip over him, landing crouched on their feet. Rie

Prologue It starts with four teens. They were strangers to each other, and why wouldn’t they be? They lived in Chicago, they went to different schools, it was a big city, a million to one chance that they would all be in the same place at the same time. That one in a million happened so often in a normal coffee shop... It was only right that they ended up all running into each other eventually. It starts with a coffee shop. You know the kind, tables and stools, couches and chairs, generally a warm friendly atmosphere, people on laptops and the smell of espresso and baked goods filling the air. Loud talking, and laughter, the baristas a