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There’s no sense denying

To tell you the truth

I wasn’t even trying

"Little White Lie"

Written by Heather Wells

You knohat happens when soe basketball ga televised live on New York One?

Everyone keeps right on playing

That’s right

Oh, they posted cops at all the exits, and after the game--which the Pansies lost, twenty-four to forty They just never came back after the second half And not even because they heard about what happened to Manuel Because no one told them No, basically, the Pansies just suck--the cops made everybody stop on their way out and show thes, so they could check for blood and weapons

Not that they told anyone that’s what they were checking for, of course

But they didn’t find anything incri They couldn’t even hold the people with half-basketball hly every male in the audience had a half-basketball uys who’d stabbed Manuel were long gone I hly doubt they stuck around to watch the rest of the gaot out before the cops even arrived

So they didn’t even witness the Pansies’ hu defeat

Neither did I, actually Because no sooner was Manuel loaded into an ambulance with his heartsick uncle at his side and carted away--the paramedics said he had lost a lot of blood and had so vital had been punctured, so he’d probably be okay--than I hisked off to the Sixth Precinct to look at h I EXPLAINED to him I hadn’t seen their faces, due to the masks

"What about their clothes?" he wants to know

"I told you," I say, for the thirtieth tiular, everyday clothes Jeans Flannel shirts Nothing special"

"And you didn’t hear the toto Manuel as "the victim" when he knows perfectly well that he has a naallows hu himself from the horror of acts of such violence

I wouldn’tmyself from it, either Every time I close my eyes, I see the blood It wasn’t red like blood on TV It was dark brown The same color the knees of ," I say "They were just stabbing hi there?" Detective Canavan wants to know "By the soda"Maybe he was thirsty The line at the concession stand was really long"

"What were you doing there?"

"I told you I had to go to the bathroo"

When Detective Canavan arrived at the sports complex--because of course we called hi a key to Lindsay--I had suggested that he stop the gale person present--particularly Coach Andrehom I now had reason to believe was ht

But President Allington--who unfortunately had to be infor in the building--balked, saying that New York One would be on the story in a red-hot h bad publicity for one week The last thing the school needed was reporters going around asking questions about a criht in no way be connected to Lindsay--despite what I told everyone Manuel had said