She broke out of the group that held her and made her way back to Jack. Together they heard the scuffle, faintly, up on the platform, and then it grew quiet for several moments, a minute perhaps. Then she pointed and people around them gasped as a body plummeted from the heights. She couldn’t tell who it was, or even its gender, just saw the dark blur until it hit the ground and bounded three feet in the air before coming to rest, finally, permanently.Next to her, Jack screamed, “Aiden!”She had never witnessed him cry, much like Mickey. Others moved in a wall toward the body, some, in the back, hollered, “Is it him? Is it the LeDoux boy?” And those closest to the corpse shook their heads and backed away and looked at the sky.Jack had left her side—she hadn’t even noticed—and was trying to maul his way toward the corpse until he saw the principal’s wife, Mrs. Russell, and Bobby’s girlfriend Cindy, on their knees in the snow, touching his shoulders, one of them shaking him as if they could wake him up.
