"Oh! Um, this is Lacey. Her family lives around the corner. Sometimes her mom and dad ask us to babysit her." Maddie said, and Yumi just smiled. "Lace..., this is Yumiko. She's the exchange student I was telling you about." Maddie said, and suddenly, Yumi felt a bit embarrassed. She had all sorts of eyes on her, and she didn't know what to say to everyone. "Hi!" Lacey just said, and Yumi smiled at her. "Hello." She replied.It was shortly after, that the long, yellow bus pulled up. Yumi never got. .. eight ... seven..." Kris intoned, looking at his wrist. The effect was somewhat diminished by the fact that he wasn't wearing his watch at the moment. He got to three before she wailed and ran back out the door.He felt only sadness as he closed it after her.What brought Kris out of his doldrums, or at least lifted his spirit somewhat, was a phone call from a man who announced he was Mr. Templeton, from Miffen and Combs. Kris recognized the voice of the man Lola had taken him to see."We sent. Gopal cleaned up the bed an the rest of the room. And then he surprised me as he started going opening the cupboard. We trust him so don?t keep it locked. Moreover, it doesn?t have any valuable or money. Money or no money, I was again angry with him, he was betraying our trust.He started hunting for something amidst our clothes. He didn?t seem to find what he was looking for in the cupboard and started going through the bin we have in our room for dirty clothes we intend to get washed. What was. She is scared, scared that it won’t always be like this, that their dreams will never come true. She wants to wrap her arms around Rayna and never let her go.“We’ll always be together,” Rayna says and kisses Lacey softly. “And this is where we will be after it is all over.”“You can’t promise me that,” Lacey says as she opens her eyes up to Rayna.“I can and I will,” Rayna says.Rayna knows it is a long shot. She knows that anything can happen at any time on any planet in any system of the galaxy..