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going to get bored and have even more trouble getting
along. But if she’d been here alone… Well, she’d be
glad to be stranded for longer.
And she knew perfectly well why.
“Shoot, I forgot to try to call Dave again. My principal,”
she explained. “I suppose I’d better do it.”
She retrieved her cell phone, but this time failed to
get the call through. She followed John back to his
room, where he took his phone from a bedside table.
She succeeded no better with his.
“They know you’re here and safe,” he said. “Don’t
worry.”
“I’ll bet the parents are worrying.”
“Because you would if one of them was your kid.”
“Well, of course I would! Dave got one call, I kept
cutting out, and now not a word.”
“You can’t do anything.”
“No. I know.” After a minute, she smiled, if crookedly.
“Oh, well. Until Amy’s little outburst, everybody
looked pretty happy.”
“You wearing down yet?” Had his voice softened?
“I’m fine. Oh, let me retrieve the rest of those pads.”
“Right.” He went into the storeroom and returned
with another of the baskets he used for toiletries and
soap in the bathroom, this one heaped with small,
plastic-wrapped sanitary pads. “This okay? Or should
I put them in a brown paper bag?”
She made a face at him. “Girls’ bathroom. Boys’
bathroom. Remember?”
He grinned, then said, “Sorry I didn’t offer any in the
first place. I could have saved some trouble.”