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"What do you lass "You aren’t old enough to drink"

"I nant was the perfect word to describe how I felt Not one I’d use in everyday conversation, but still perfect "I got in, didn’t I?"

"Where’s your starenadine, she poured solass, added two cherries, and topped it off with Coke

"Staar Coal" She slid the cherry Coke across the counter and winked "On the house"

The guy beside me showed her a stamp on his hand and ordered a beer I cussed I’d missed that part At least I hadn’t paid a cover

I turned around to scan the crowd, cherry Coke in hand, and iht shin and shoe

Jack Standing by the front door

I shoved the glass into an eh the crowded dance floor to the entrance

Gone

Stepping outside, I cringed when the cold wind hit the Coke on er was playing tricks Maybe I needed to find a bar that would serve ers war as it approached Beale Street Landing

The croas too thick for the trolley to be going so fast One drunk stu direction and a person couldflipped to slow motion, too heavy and too thick

The rip blended, just like the one Lily and I had experienced the day before The dark made it harder to see specific features, but when a newsboy passed by, hawking the Meroup of Elvis iain

I rubbed my eyes with irl wearing a white dress She had two long pigtails, and she was skipping Completely out of place I reached out to touch her at the same time she dropped a penny She chased it into the street

The brakes of the trolley squealed, and the suished cry "No! Mary!"

What if I rong, and the little girl was real, not a rip? I was close enough to catch her Without another second of thought, I ran, desperate to stop her before the unthinkable happened and the trolley h, I could knock her out of the way and roll us both to safety

I ran

I leapt

I grabbed

She dissolved

So did the trolley

Chapter 29

"Can you tell us again what happened?"

"I don’t knohat I saw There was a little girl--she was there and then she was gone Her ood way to explain that