He was the one I called when I finally found a pay phone over two hours later. I woke him up, but when I told him where I was and a little about what had happened, he immediately agreed to come and get me. (I called my parents too and told them not to worry—that Gunnar had had a flat tire on the ...
Morgan said, glaring at me in the attic, in the harsh light of that bare bulb. She only spoke that one word, but it contained a whole dictionary's worth of disappointment. "What are you--?" I had been starting to ask her what she had been doing there, in the dark, in the attic, in the middle of...