The globe stops spinning. On it, a small sticky note from Riley: “See you in high school, Dad. Don’t change the room too much.”

Riley bursts out: “Everything’s changing. Next year is high school. We won’t be in this room. You won’t be our teacher. And what if—what if we don’t stay us ?”

Silence. Then Maya punches her lightly in the arm. “Too dramatic. Even for you.”

Zay: “I’m scared of being Lucas’s friend and not my own person.”