Jon had spent his time in line planning what to say to Karyn. And now when he was finally in front of her ... his mind had blanked out! He glanced at the two lunch ladies by Karyn's side. One looked like Gladys, and the other was Asian. There were not that many nonwhites in Lake Point, so whoever stepped into the Asian lunch lady's shoes was probably white ...
Focus, Jon, he told himself. Focus. He blurted out one word in an almost inaudible voice. "Karyn."
"What did you just say?" asked Karyn. That didn't sound like anything she was serving today.
Jon forced himself to turn up the volume. "K-Karyn."
"How do you know my name?" asked Karyn.
"What are you doing?" whined the girl behind Jon. He wondered who she was ... and who she had been.
Focus, Jon! "Um ..." Jon put down his tray, pulled out his phone, opened the app, and in haste typed Karyn's name ... as "Kayrn."
"Who's holding up the line!?" grumbled a boy several students behind Jon.
Jon ignored him. Focus, he told himself. The app suggested "Karyn." He tapped on her entry and lifted his phone up to her face. "Look, Karyn! It's you!"
"I don't see anything. Just a blank black screen." Karyn wanted to ask the redheaded boy why he was doing this to her, but the line was getting restless. "One last time - what do you want?" As much as she hated sounding rude to the boy, he was getting weird, and she had to put a stop to that.
"You really don't see anything? Oh, no!" Jon remembered his wish: I wish I had an app on my phone that only I could use or see. He'd have to find some other way to talk to Karyn. Later. Preferably before she became someone else at 3:47.
Right now he needed to order food. He put his phone back into his pocket and pointed at random. "This ... this ... and this." He couldn't even think of words for food at the moment.
Oh, Karyn ... He couldn't bear to look at her as she scooped up whatever. He had seen something in her eyes. Not recognition, yet ... something better than nothing.
"Finally." The girl behind Jon rolled her eyes.
Jon turned around to look at her. She was ...
