6
Meta Moves In
She smiled tentatively. “Told you I’d see you again!” she said over the rising moan of the engines.
I stared at her. This couldn’t be happening. For a moment I didn’t say anything, because the first words that came to mind were ones pretty little Meta had probably never heard before. I finally settled on, “What do you think you’re doing?”
“I’ve never been in a spaceship before,” Meta said, still lying on her back, staring up at me. “I thought it would be fun to see if I could sneak onto yours before you left, and you told me the dressing room was going to be moved on board, so I just slipped back in here after you left it backstage but before they sealed it and I slid under the bed but then I got scared when you came in and decided to try to sneak out before you woke up
