Chapter 2: Building Tension
Kyle scrolled through the stacked tabs on his laptop—Facebook, Reddit, Twitter—and rolled his eyes so hard they made a popping noise in his head. His frustration with the monotony of his online browsing grew until he finally slammed his laptop shut, sending his textbook flying open and scrambling a sea of chicken-scratch notes about microeconomics.
"There's somebody interesting," Kyle muttered, gazing past the open laptops and cups of drip coffee littered on tables in the busy, artsy coffee shop.