A typical large high school, located in Syracuse, New York.
Melinda discovered this cozy hiding place in the school. It's an abandoned janitor's closet in the Seniors' Wing. There are built-in shelves filled with dusty textbooks along the back wall. Behind a collection of mops and brooms, there's a stained armchair and a desk. Melinda fixes it up and hangs some of her artwork and a poster of Maya Angelou. She slips into her closet for naps, to write in her journal and just to be in a safe space.
Melinda feels that her room at home belongs to an alien. It was last.....
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