This is the space to tell us how you would answer the writing prompt that appears in CrimeBits on page 265.
He hadn’t been born bad. He didn’t think so, not now. He’d had plenty of time to think about his life and there wasn’t anything he could pinpoint as a child. He’d been a little different, may- be, but not overly so. It wasn’t like he would torture animals, or bully other kids.
He’d been . . . normal. That’s all. Just a normal kid.
As normal as you can be anyway. Ordinary, nothing special. He wasn’t bottom of his class, but he wasn’t top of it either. He was, like seemingly everyone else he knew as kid, in the middle. Just drifting by.
When he’d met her, he’d been the same. He was sure of it. She was the one who had changed him.