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Show Fair Forever . 71 Chapter Thirteen The bus Instead of leaving early to catch the school bus, I wait and watch I know about the bus. There are rules. There's a hierarchy. None of the rules are posted, of course. No one hands out a sheet of paper at the beginning of the year to explain how the hierarchy works; it just does. If you want to get anywhere, you need to arrive at the proper time and sit in the proper place. Like rowing a skiff, there's a right way, and a wrong way. .... I'm ready early and I remember what Katie said about the bus being crowded. I could be the first to line, up, but I let Jennie Brighton be fust. Jennie had been first to line up last year, greeting all her girlfriends like they were the best kind of friends. But the girls had responded with a polite hello, and then they had congregated in tight |