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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred • Page 41 of 307 "Nope." And then I had to spend fifteen minutes explaining why not until I glanced with surprise at the clock and saw it read five minutes to one. "Wow, I've really got to get to Manti." Kayla glanced at the clock and pretended not to feel some small satisfaction, "I'm sorry Nephi. I overstayed. I bet you can still make it. Boys!" She screamed up the stairs. Kayla is not so dumb that she does not know that Manti is twenty-five minutes from Mount Pleasant. There were no reassuring thuds of little feet racing down the stairs. "Don't you make me pull you out of here by the hair!" she screamed up there again. Ahh, now the thudding. I had seen her viscous attacks on these children before. When Kayla threatens hair pulling, she means it. CHAPTER 6 i Eight o' clock in the morning and my phone was ringing again. Notoriously Nocturnal Nephi was beginning to sense a painful pattern in my new position as apprentice. I picked it up. "We gotta move. Did you get that paperwork in the mail?" Perhaps I should have felt guilty for still lying in slumber at the ancient hour of eight, but I didn't. I felt annoyed to be |
