October 2011
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Chapter 23.
No wait, that’s not what happened. This is what happened.
Helen called Jane at 5 in the morning.
“There’s an enormous hot air balloon here,” Helen said. “At the park. And nobody’s guarding it.”
“Hot damn! I am on my way,” Jane replied.
Jane parked her bike against a tree, and the two girls approached the balloon. The hot air balloon was...
Chapter 22.
Jane called Helen from the train station, the day she was supposed to leave.
“I thought your train was this afternoon!” Helen said.
“I got the time wrong,” Jane said. “I had to take a taxi down, and my train’s already boarding.”
“I can take a taxi down there too,” Helen said. “I can be there in like twenty minutes.”
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Chapter 21.
This was their last summer before they went off to separate schools. They were laying on their backs looking for faces in the clouds, talking about the future. When they talked about the future, they didn’t discuss school. They made plans for some undefined future when they were together again.
“We can get a train pass for like five hundred dollars,” Helen said. “A...