When she's not blinking back tears, Arianna Thompson's dark eyes are so full of intensity it's as if she is trying to soak up the essence of her four best friends seated around the table with her. Thompson groans, tears flowing freely. Claudia Pafumi on one side of her and Kate Silver-Heilman on the other give a brief squeeze to her outstreteched hands. For high school students, that's a long time, and time is the villain now. It's collapsing in on them.
Next week is the last day of classes.
Graduation is a few weeks away. So does peripatetic. One minute, you're the best mother ever and will you pleaseplease make his favorite meal. The problem is, graduating seniors don't know where to position themselves emotionally from one moment to the next. It's not just senior year that's running on a video loop through their heads.