![]() ![]() Timmy Hudson, who had beaten him up just about every day in fifth grade, passed by, not giving Rex a second glance. One more layer between him and Bixby High School. Rex squinted in the brightness and pushed up his glasses with one finger, wishing he could wear dark shades over their thick frames. For Rex summer vacation was a place to hide, and every year this day gave him the sinking feeling of having just been discovered, caught, pinned like an escaping prisoner in a searchlight. His every step was a struggle, a fight against the grating radiance of Bixby High, against being trapped here for another year. Rex Greene walked slowly, wondering how the students jostling past him could run into this place. The freshly shined floors dazzled, glinting in the hard September sunlight that streamed in through the school's open front doors. ![]() Fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, their white honeycombed plastic shields newly cleaned of dead insect shapes. The halls of Bixby High School were always hideously bright on the first day of school. ![]()
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