Minute 34 The mall was one of those strip ones that don’t have a lot of stores, just a medium sized drugstore as the anchor and very small shops of all kinds: barber, coffee, bakery, cheap pizza, convenience, a bank, and so on. For us students, hanging out consisted of walking around as if we were window-shopping and then stopping at either the pizza place or the coffee shop. Therefore, aside from the school halls and cafeteria we saw each other at either place, but would not exchange words with other groups, as if we’ve never seen each other, we would only talk to the people we went with. I knew Sara would be there, judging for the direction she took off on Fridays with the same group of friends. That only happened on some Fridays, the other days she went by herself in the opposite way

