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I hopped up on tiptoes to peer over shoulders into Sandy’s room. She wasn’t inside.
“Maybe she went to the bathroom,” Edna suggested, trying to alleviate Ida’s fears.
Ida shook her head. “She took those pills Aly gave her. They knock her out for hours.”
“Then where could she be?” Sylvia said.
“Wade has her,” Ida said.
“We’d have seen him,” Mrs. Janowski said. “I didn’t even hear any cars come or go except for when Mars and Jack arrived.”
“There’s a back door with a trail nearby,” Ida said. “I bet he used that.”
“Let’s go look,” Mrs. Janowski said.
We all raced back downstairs and followed Ida to the back door. From upstairs you couldn’t see the trail. Too many trees blocked the view. But once we were outside, we could see the wide trail as it snaked down the hill.
“Where does
