Cindy turned and disappeared into the crowd of students, leaving me worried and confused as the hallway bustled around me. At lunch she was nowhere to...be found. I nibbled at my food as I walked through the hallways, looking in the many nooks and crannies that people often claimed as their personal cafeterias. Cindy was either moving around as I was or had found place I didnt know of. However, I did find Reggie. I sat down next to him. Why hello there, he greeted me. And what brings you to my. I will just call your parents." You think I was able to sneak out of the house dressed like this? Theyknow what I am wearing and backed my decision. They taught me to standup against what is wrong."Knowing that Martin's parents coddle their child made Principal Zarnjust give up. Trying to discipline Martin was not going to be worth thetroubled and might cause more harm than good. If they fought thepunishment Principal Zarn gave their precious child hard enough theschool board might cave and. “Shit”, I thought to myself. “This sucks.”The cop took his time getting out of his car, but eventually stepped up to my driver’s side window. I lowered the window as he approached.“You were weaving a bit back there, ma’am. Can I see your driver’s license, please?”As I fished my driver’s license out of my purse, the cop bent down and looked over at Terry, noticing that he was in worse shape than I was. He returned his gaze to me and said, “Looks like you’ve been out tonight….maybe had a bit too. ”“No, I suppose not; I was just curious, that’s all.” We spent the evening in, with a bottle of wine or two.The next day my ever practical wife placed a chair next to the same upstairs window, from where she could read a book but still keep an eye out for Mary. I was doing much the same thing—reading, that is—when I heard her hurried footsteps on the stairs. Amber appeared and picked up the box containing the new phone; we had charged it up the night before and entered Amber’s phone number in.