For this contest, you are going to use the sentence provided as the first line of a short story. 

RULES

Max. word count of 2500

Minimal swearing

Any genre

Put trigger warnings if you're writing anything that could be, you know, triggering. 

I think that's it! Let me know if you have any other questions, and enjoy!

Oh, right! almost forgot the sentence. Your starting sentence is, "Sitting on the roof, I stared up at the sky. Why did..." The rest is up to you.

Now that's it! Good luck.