Denver kept creeping in, pushing away Sandra and her pristine panties. All the same, I felt a great deal of sympathy for Sandy, even though she was never going to figure out just what the quadratic equation was all about.
If Mr. Denver and Mr. Grace decided to send me to Greenmantle, I might never see Sandy again. And that would be too bad. I got up from the hopper, dusted the cracker crumbs down into the bowl, and flushed it. High-school toilets are all the same; they sound like s taking off. It makes you sure that the sound is clearly audible in the adjacent classroom and that everybody is thinking: Well, there goes another load.
The bathroom should be a confessional sort of place. But they foil you. They always foil you. People like Mr. Grace even get paid for it.
But by then the bathroom door was wheezing shut behind me and I was in the hall again. I paused, looking around. I went back into the bathroom and took out my Flair. There were bruised half-moons under my eyes, which looked wide and white and stary.
The nostrils were half-flared and ugly. The mouth was a white, twisted line. It dropped on the floor and I kicked it. There was a sound behind me.
I closed my eyes and breathed slowly and deeply until I had myself under control. Then I went upstairs. The administration offices of Placerville High are on the third floor, along with the study hall, the library, and Room , which is the typing room. The bow tie was clutching my collar like a pink spider with hidden steel legs, the coat was too tight, and she'd even made me put on my square-toed shoes, which were my Sunday best.
My father wasn't there, he was down at Gogan's slopping up a few with his good buddies, but if he'd been around he would have said I looked "squared away. Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
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