“Sorry,” Phillip said. “It’s still too warm for it to be of much use. I’ll get the extra blankets out tonight, okay?”
“Finally!” Jeanne said. She grinned from ear to ear as she sat down at the table, carrying the two boxes of cereal. “It’s been really hard to sleep with nothing on me.”
“You’ve got a sheet,” Gene said.
“That’s not enough,” Jeanne said. “I don’t know, I just sleep better in winter with lots of blankets.”
Phillip had to agree with her; the weight did put him more at ease than the warmth. “Well, that’s tonight. You guys ready for school?”
“Yeah,” Gene said. “Ready to sleep through it.”
“Gene,” Phillip cautioned. “It’s not that bad, is it?”
“It’s that bad and worse,” Jeanne sighed. “It’s so boring!”
“We go through this every day,” Phillip said. “It’s boring but it’s unavoidable.”
“Maybe if we showed Mrs. Baum, she’d let us off the hook with homework,” Gene said. “But, I bet she’d just put more on us.”
“Probably.” Jeanne gazed deeply into the last few Cheerios floating in the milk. “We’re not that lucky.”
“Hey, luck has nothing to do with it,” Phillip said. “Besides, you guys aren’t exactly alone. There’s Rob and Tegan, right?”
“Yeah, kinda,” Gene said, “but there’s also Deacon.” The mention of the name seemed to send chills through Jeanne; she sat bolt upright in her chair. “I bet he’s waiting for us again.”
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