Joanna was divided. She was perfectly happy with the walks and climbs that Jerry planned for them but she wanted something more challenging such as th...e boys were offering. She took the bull by the horns on Thursday evening."Dad," she said, "why don't we do Helvellyn together as a grand finale tomorrow?"Jerry looked questioningly at Emma."Why not? It's probably quite a stiff climb but we're used to that now." There's just one minor problem," said Ralph, "in that we've both done it a number of. "He's helping my mom set up her computer in the basement, he'll be upsoon." Emily replied.Eventually, at the end of the hallway, Emily opened a door and ledTaylor into the room."What do you think?" Emily asked.Taylor looked around, there were still a few unpacked boxes lyingaround, but the room had mostly been unpacked. Emily had a vanity inone corner, her four-post canopy bed in another, various posters on thewall of boy bands, and an overstuffed closet. Emily was definitely agirly girl,. " You have fantasies and you have never told me about them? Why not? You know I'd do anything for you, give you whatever you want." I've never mentioned them because you wouldn't like them and you would probably think less of me if you knew what they were." What are they?" I don't want to talk about them." Then why did you bring up the subject?" If you had a fantasy or two it would have been easier to talk about mine while we talked about yours. Since you don't have any I really don't want to. There was lots of applause, of course. She called us young heroes, and said we were the pride of Clinton High.She finished, and Mr. Bigelow got up and harrumphed about how he had power vested in him, and pronounced us graduated and all that, and, one by one, we walked across the stand that had been erected under the home team basket. When we did that, they said what college, or technical school, or branch of the service each one was going to. The eight slackers just got "undecided" behind their.
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