Hey, Mrs. Murray. Don't look so worried. But this is my 16th birthday. I had to bring it to show my friends at lunch. I'm taking it home now.
Nobody has more than one birthday in a year.
Seeing Lucian had done nothing to alleviate my increasing sense of foreboding. I did not want to think about what might happen if Mr. Forli left school and found his car before I had told him about the window. The fire alarm unexpectedly sounded. No drill was scheduled, but the visitors in the home economics suite would not know that this must be a false alarm. I was not going to be able to get to Mr. Forli before he went outside with everyone else.