A Taboo

Cassidy's POV

My pen stopped moving. Social Studies was usually my only bearable class. It offered a grounded escape from the brutal formulas of math and the endless dissection of literature. But today’s lecture yanked me right out of my half-listening daze. My spine snapped straight against the back of my chair.

Ms. Margot Alder paced across the front of the classroom and pushed her glasses up