“And where exactly do you think that you’re going?”
The two girls who had been trying—and failing—to make their way through the crowd without being noticed, came to an immediate stop, their feet raised in mid-air, for they had been about to take another step forward. Even though I was so far away, I could still guess that their facial expressions would be quite animated, for they had obviously not expected me to call them out on their behaviour. I also guessed that neither of them knew what to say to me, knew how to answer me, because they were looking at one another in a manner than I had seen all too many times.
The chances that they were trying to figure out which one of them would be the unlucky one who would have to answer me. In any other circumstances I would hav
