What could possibly happen among the cypress trees along the river’s path, when three girls decide to walk home from school together? What could happen on a breezy summer day, where the birds are singing, and the grass is crispy from the hot sun? Where butterflies and bees dance among the flowers?

Gianna, Sienna, and Maria thought it was a perfect day to walk home from school. But what they didn’t know was that someone was hiding behind the trees, watching them. Waiting. Until they were just close enough.

When Luca Perri surprised those three sisters on that day, he said he didn’t mean for one of them to get hurt. But the youngest sister isn’t convinced and wonders what’s going on inside the mind of this boy who she’s protected and grown up with her entire life. Surely he couldn’t have meant them harm. Could he?

"Luca"

by Krissy Baccaro