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It&039;s official, Maggie thought, staring at her face in a gas station restroo to think," she told herself But it was getting harder to deny She&039;d stolen food that ht about it Just walked into a bakery, asked for a half dozen croissants, and then refused to pay once the clerk handed the by the door, sweeping dust out into the street He&039;d had freckles, she re a really stupid paper hat He tried to stop her Told her she was a thief

She had flung out one hand and knocked hih to snap his broo a half-eaten croissant If both hands had been free she probably would have crippled him

With the door clear, she just walked out and down the street an no one tried to stop her at all And the croissants tasted so good

Of course, anything will taste fantastic when you haven&039;t eaten in days

Maggie washed out her field hockey uniform in the sink with some of the nasty pink soap from the dispenser She used some more of it to scrub under her armpits and wash her face There wasn&039;t much she could do about her hair - the soap would just led and nasty, so she left it God, what she wouldn&039;t give for a shower And her own bed She&039;d been sleeping in the bus station with all the other ho very old

It had been nearly a week since she&039;d sry and hurt she couldn&039;t think at all, could only punch and kick and screa from roof to roof until she wound up so the street with her head full of fog When she went back to get the car it was gone, along with her purse and her sidekick - most likely Brent drove it home Brent, as in all the newspapers now Everybody loved hiiven a single thought to whether her friend was in danger when she left She&039;d just wanted to get away and had thought of nothing but herself

She was glad Mandy was okay Apparently she was still in the hospital but would ie told herself over and over she was glad for that Even though there had been a moment there, after Mandy told her she wouldn&039;t keep her proht have -

It wasn&039;t worth thinking about what she h

There&039;d been nothing in the papers about Maggie so far, which she figured was soed She was kind of grateful to hi for her Twice so far a cop had seen her on the street and shouted for her to freeze, but both tiotten aithout any problems

She dried her clothes with the old battered hot air hand dryer in the gas station restroo vent, though, or how vigorously she rubbed at it, she kneould still be soggy when she put it back on It was also a dead giveahenever the cops spotted her Howaround doearing field hockey unifore of clothes She needed et out of town

None of that should be too hard, she thought, for a notorious supervillain