It echoes across the forest, and birds rise from their trees. It sounds like a shotgun. Cha-chuck – the sound echoes off the empty walls as anothe... round is chambered. ‘I got five more rounds, boy,’ she calls. Real close combat with the girls is rare. Usually they avoid us as much as we do them. I whip around a corner and pull my blade up. It flashes through the shotgun, and the gun comes apart in two pieces in her hands. The tip of my blade darts up and in, resting cold and sharp just. The hum of Lukes old Chevy went along steadily, and the young couple limited themselves to staring at one another out of the corner of their eyes while they smiled. So . . . Luke began with a grin. Lila looked over him, and instantly started laughing. She laughed until she cried, the whole situation was just so crazy and funny! One year ago she declared herself to be a lesbian, and now here she was, married to her life-long friend. Were married. She finally said with a giggle, Im your wife!. I hear Grace get paged to the office. When she confirms my story, a list of kids gets called to the office. It is almost twenty minutes later before they let me out of the suspension room.When I get to the outer office, my foster Mom is there. She has heard what happened and is taking the Principal’s version of events as gospel. She doesn’t quite chew me out for the altercation, but she does express her disappointment. What she is pissed at was my phoning the police. Believing the Principal’s. She put her calling card into my breast pocket and told me,"Everything is in order. You may move on to the plane now Miss."I couldn't halt a feeling of wanting to go back through the line a second time just to make sure she didn't miss any important spots but it seemed so dreadfully inane that I laughed at my own stupidity and followed the other passengers down the ramp and into the cabin. The female attendants were pristine and professionally appropriate in every movement they made. I was.