Benton couldn’t have said what he’d just said! Benton had never asked him to tell … that is, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford never said … or Benton never said they’d said — Wait a minute, he thought. Mom was surprised when I mentioned the wedding the night of the fire. The Crawfords must have forgotten to tell them — and Benton didn’t know that. He had it all wrong. “I’ll straighten him out,” Dana said out loud. There was no one around to hear him. Both teams had cleared off the field. There was no one to talk with as he waited in the parking area for his mom to get back. So he had plenty of time to think about what Benton had said. When Mrs. Bellamy finally arrived, he could hardly wait to get into the car. He wanted to ask her if the Crawfords had mentioned that they were going out the night the fire happened. But Dana’s mom was so excited, he didn’t even tell her about the game.
