About half-way to school, Karyn pulled free of Jon's grasp.
"Finally," she said, as she plopped down on someone's lawn and just sat there.
"Karyn? What are you doing?"
"I'm taking a rest. What does it look like I'm doing?"
"We've only been walking for two minutes."
"Well, it's really tiring. I just don't feel like walking around today."
Jon only stared at her. "Then how are you going to get home?"
She looked around. "I don't know. Maybe I'll just stay here for a while."
Jon couldn't believe what he was hearing. Was Karen going to sit on some stranger's front yard all day? This was crazy. "Karyn, I don't think ..."
Then there was a loud boom. It cut Jon's sentence off and forced him to look in the direction of the sound. A look of shock appeared on his face when he saw ...
