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CHAPTER FIFTEEN SOMEHOW, after the date with Chad, Fiona felt even lonelier. It was as if, until then, she’d been able to fool herself that she could easily move on. The thing with John? Too bad, but… Big shrug. Win some, lose some. Who had she been kidding? she asked herself in despair. She was damaged goods. Heart broken, or at least cracked. Hearts, she had discovered, unlike bones, didn’t mend in six weeks. It didn’t help that the kids kept bringing up his name. Tabitha. “I got an e-mail from Mr. Fallon. He says…” Dieter. “Dad made reservations for us to go to Thunder Mountain in July. Is that cool, or what? Willow is talking to her dad about them maybe going at the same time.” Willow. “Dad says maybe. My little brother thinks it would be awesome!” Oh, good. Fiona was excruciatingly jealous of two teenagers, because they got to go back to the lodge. They’d get to see John. “That’s great,” she managed to say. “Tell Mr. Fallon hi.” Willow looked shocked, and even accusatory. “How come you don’t still e-mail with him?”
JANICE KAY JOHNSON 259 “I think maybe to maintain a friendship you have to see each other once in a while.” She immediately regretted what she’d said when the girl’s shoulders slumped. “Yeah. My friends from my old school? It’s like, we used to IM all the time. Not so much anymore.” “It happens.” Fiona gave her a quick hug. “Important friendships last, even over time and distance. And fortunately, you make new ones at every phase of life.” A quiet glow—and the removal of her braces, leaving perfectly straight, white teeth and a far more natural smile—made Willow considerably prettier than she’d been in early November. “I have, thanks to Dieter and… and to you.” “Me?” Touched, Fiona hugged her again. “I’m glad if I’ve helped.” The kids who’d been on that trip had become important to her, far beyond the fact that she coached them in Knowledge Champs. It was a combination, she thought, of having faced actual danger together, and of the intimacy of the days that followed. She knew them, foibles, joys and weaknesses, as she rarely knew her students. What she couldn’t decide was whether it was an upside or a downside that they felt they knew her, too. Kelli and Tabitha together stopped at her desk after class perhaps a month after Fiona’s date with Chad. “You went out with Mr. Scammell, right?” Kelli asked. Her mouth probably dropped open. “How did you…?” “I heard him ask you. I was waiting in the hall,” Tabitha said. “I really don’t think my personal life…”
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN<br />
SOMEHOW, after the date with Chad, Fiona felt even<br />
lonelier. It was as if, until then, she’d been able to fool<br />
herself that she could easily move on.<br />
The thing with John? Too bad, but… Big shrug. Win<br />
some, lose some.<br />
Who had she been kidding? she asked herself in despair.<br />
She was damaged goods. Heart broken, or at least<br />
cracked. Hearts, she had discovered, unlike bones,<br />
didn’t mend in six weeks.<br />
It didn’t help that the kids kept bringing up his name.<br />
Tabitha. “I got an e-mail from Mr. Fallon. He says…”<br />
Dieter. “Dad made reservations for us to go to Thunder<br />
Mountain in July. Is that cool, or what? Willow is talking<br />
to her dad about them maybe going at the same time.”<br />
Willow. “Dad says maybe. My little brother thinks<br />
it would be awesome!”<br />
Oh, good. Fiona was excruciatingly jealous of two<br />
teenagers, because they got to go back to the lodge.<br />
They’d get to see John.<br />
“That’s great,” she managed to say. “Tell Mr. Fallon hi.”<br />
Willow looked shocked, and even accusatory. “How<br />
<strong>com</strong>e you don’t still e-mail with him?”
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