Chapter 43"So how's the assignment going, Char?" asked Gloria.
Charlie, who'd just sat down beside her in the cafeteria, was distracted, searching the crowd around them for Nolan. "Okay so far." She hadn't gotten any food yet; her thoughts couldn't have been more elsewhere.
"Then what's the plan, Stan?" Sutra, who was sitting across from her, raised her eyebrows expectantly. "Lay it on me, girlfriend."
Charlie thought she glimpsed Nolan across the room. "Uh..." She craned her neck and rose up from the bench for a better look...but it turned out not to be him. "I don't know yet." Disappointed, she dropped back down.
"Nothing yet?" Sutra winced. "But the day's half over already."
"Don't worry, we'll come up with something." Charlie rubbed her eyes. She'd been trying to dream
