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The bus stops at Pizza Hut They have one hour to eat before going back to the evening play Janie grabs a Personal Pan to go, eats it on the bus, and sleeps Sleeps right through the play, in her backseat spot Nobody seeet off the bus 11:33 pm

The bus arrives, most kids exhausted, back at the hotel Janie falls into bed She is numb, but not from anyone’s dream Not this time She thinks about Cabel Cries silently in her pillow in the dark rooister hums loudly Savannah, the captain of the women’s soccer team, collapses on the covers next to her They don’t speak They hover at the edges of their bed October 15, 2005, 1:04 am–6:48 am

Janie ju the US woendary Mia Ha surprise--this dream could totally be an episode of Hannah Montana Just when Janie wonders if Savannah has even the slightest bit of depth to her, Savannah’s dream turns to Kyle, who sat in front of Janie on the bus Interesting coued Until the switch to Melinda

Melinda, no surprise, has a three-way sex party going on with Shay Wilder, who is in bed next to her, and with Carrie The sex is normal at first, then unbelievably tacky, in Janie’s opinion The bodies of Carrie and Shay are, to use a crass phrase, blown out of proportion Janie es for the first time in someone else’s dream to turn away

Janie counts it as a major victory

And then there’s Shay

Shay dreams about Cabel Strumheller

A lot

And in a lot of different ways

By , Janie hates Shay with all her heart And she has very dark circles under her eyes 8:08 am

Shay, Melinda, and Savannah head down to breakfast The matinee is at 10:00

"See you on the bus," Janie says, even though she is starving The other girls don’t bother to answer Janie rolls her eyes

She takes a shoraps a towel around her head, and falls back into the bed She sets the alare, and the students who didn’t elect to take in a third play, at 1

pm

8:34 am

Janie dreams for the second ti in a dark lake, and Cabel is on the shore with a rope, but he won’t throw it to her She waves frantically to him, and he can’t see her She slips under the water slowly Under the water, she sees others like her Babies, children, teens, adults All of the just under the surface of the water, no one able to help It’s because they’re all dead

Their eyes bulge