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Show Chapter Six That night Kim celebrated her victory by going into to San Francisco to a movie with Mimi. It was after twelve o'clock when Miss Hawkins returned them home in the school van. Six hours later, the alarm on her travel clock went off. It rang for almost a minute before she gathered the strength to turn it off. Dropping her hand to the floor, she groped until she found the alarm and pushed the button to shut it off. Her head felt like it was filled with gravel. It throbbed on one side, and she wished she'd gotten to bed three hours earlier. Miss Fites was holding a special basketball practice at seven that morning. For one lazy moment she thought about sleeping through the practice, but then she came to her senses, realizing it was the team's first practice, and Miss Fites would throw a fit if she weren't there. Music always helped when she felt tired. Once again, she reached down to the floor, this time to turn on the stereo. After running her hand back and forth over the bare wood, she realized the stereo wasn't there. Thinking Mimi had moved it, 92 |