" No, just Trudy's," Brenda corrected. "Jeannette's just a secretary. It would be natural for her to follow Trudy out. She was lucky to get a chance t... be here in the first place." The wrong had been righted."I didn't know that Trudy can't take a joke," Ashley said. "If I had known..." It's Trudy's fault," Gloria interrupted, stifling the apology. "And it was my fault for trusting her. She fooled me with that performance at the Sunrise School. I should have seen through it. She was trying to. What's going on?" I haven't seen Kiera since she left to use the bathroom thirty minutes ago. I asked a few girls who were leaving the bathroom if she was in there, and they all said that no one was in there. I'm getting worried."Caleb looked at his sister, silently asking for an alibi. They needed a good reason for their situation. A good reason for a brother and sister to be locked up in a bathroom stall for over thrity minutes.Kiera gave her brother a peck on the lips and whispered, "Follow. "There's nothing to be cured of. You are no longer going to flinch when the ball comes at you. That's all." I went oh-for-five!" I repeated."Did you flinch?" Fuck, I don't know! But I never felt like I was flinching, even before your Magic Box thing."Sandy giggled. "Don't call it my magic box," she said. "That sounds dirty!" Well, it sounds better than calling it your Coffin Treatment," I said, smiling into the phone."You're going to be OK," Sandy said. "Just be patient." I don't want to be. To quote a famous Greek philosopher. 'Mmmmm Beer!"Ginny and I danced. A lot! We danced our shoe leather into shoe paper, we danced so much.! Those long-ago dance lessons from her Mom were still paying off all these years later. The slow dances did not involve dance lesson material of course, not with the events of recent days. The slow dances required a parental advisory sticker and ice water! Phew! When my Ginny Blossom get her motor revving she lights up a room, and heats it up too! Maybe it.