
“Coach picked you as cheer co-captain, and you’ve already won SGA president. Hannah waves us off to crowd the whole debate team into one shot. My battered boat shoes kick at the air as Debbie makes a gagging sound. Late-summer humidity clings to my bare arms. Posed on the sunbaked sidewalk before the flagpole, the sun scorches down on us from a flawless sky, turning the school lawns and hedges a saturated green. The shutter clicks, and the Cresswell Academy Class of 2021 Student Government Association is immortalized. Debbie, our treasurer, grunts and rolls her eyes. “Take it now! I’m making my serious face.”īehind me, Ben, vice president of the student government, cracks up.

“At least it’ll be easy for them to find my photo.” I plant my hands against the cement and lift myself into a headstand.


Like, your grandkids will be cleaning this out of your attic when you die.” Keep your tongue in your mouth,” Hannah Kim says from behind the camera lens. “ Please try to look presidential, Jeremy.
