with its gorgeous music room but not a single teacher in it as beautiful or as nice as Miss Edmunds.
“You had a gym?” “Yeah. I think all the schools did. Or most of them anyway.”
She sighed. “I really miss it. I’m pretty good at gymnastics.”
“I guess you hate it here.” “Yeah.” She was quiet for a moment, thinking, Jess decided, about her former school,
which he saw as bright and new with a gleaming gymnasium larger than the one at the consolidated high school.
“I guess you had a lot of friends there, too.” “Yeah.”
“Why’d you come here?” “My parents are reassessing their value structure.”
“Huh?” “They decided they were too hooked on money and success,”
“so they bought that old farm and they’re going to farm it and think about what’s important.”
Jess was staring at her with his mouth open. He knew it, and he couldn’t help himself. It was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard.
“But you’re the one that’s gotta pay.” “Yeah.” “Why don’t they think about you?”
“We talked it over,” she explained patiently. “I wanted to come, too.”
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