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Show her mother had put out on lessons and everything. Her mother's words echoed painfully in her head. 'I'm kind of lookin' forward to showing those people at the Academy we've got class too in Idaho." Ugh! She'd have to tell her mother sometime. But just not now. Maybe after she'd been away for a few weeks she could write and tell her that Miss Trion had decided to place her in a three o'clock class and that time didn't work out with her school schedule. She could break it slowly to her mother-lead up gradually to what really happened to soften the blow. She glanced around the tiny room. The shelves on the wall above the desk were" filled with her roomate's books and plants. Kim had stopped in the room after school just long enough to drop off her books and pick up her ballet outfit and meet her new roommate, Mimi Overfelt, from California. Her father was an engineer and her mother a psychologist, and she herself had come to the school because she was an MGM student-Mentally Gifted Minor-and her parents thought she could get a better education at a private school. This was her second year at the school. In addition to the plants on the shelves, Mimi had placed a feicus benjamina-a slender tree about four feet high with wavy leaves behind a wicker chair in the room. Kim knew the name of the plant because Laura had one in her 39 |