Chapter 56 The night before the flight, rain poured heavily. The road was engulfed with soil turned to mud, and vehicles would not get across the area, and I spent hours waiting till past 9 with nothing but hoping it would stop. Seth, clueless about how I convinced mom, insisted she pick me up instead. The danger of the road was a great excuse for her not to, or else I would just step my rainboots on the soft, sticky wet earth sticking on my feet, slowly cleaning the impurities with the drops of the rain dripping down from the raincoat I wore facing the storm head-on. The downpour gave me enough noise to hear the woman, yet I walked away from home to make sure mom or siblings wouldn't find out the deception that would identify the truth over the line. "I'll ask someone to pick you up! I

