AND TOLD THE CHORUS TEACHER THAT TRACI SHOULDN’T BE PUT AHEAD OF ANYBODY
         
         JUST BECAUSE HER FATHER PAYED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS EXTRA A MONTH.CLAE
         
         ALWAYS SAID IT WAS MR.MARCALL’S FAULT AND FOOLISHNESS FOR DOING THAT.TRACI
         
         AGREED.
         
           THEN LAURI HAD COME,A YEAR LATER.WITH A FALSETTO VOICE AS SWEET AS
         
         SOMETHING ON A HARP,SHE CHARMED EVERYONE.SHE WAS A FLIRT BEYOND FLIRTS,
         
         AND NEVER HAD TROUBLE GETTING A DATE.IT WAS NO SECRET SHE DIDN’T HAVE
         
         CLAE’S LOOKS,OR TRACI’S HUMOR AND CARINGNESS,BUT SHE HAD A MOUTH THAT YOU
         
         COULDN’T TAPE,WIRE,CEMENT,OR SUPER GLUE SHUT.SHE EXPRESSED HER OPPINION
         
         TWICE AS LOUD,AND TEN TIMES AS FREQUENT AS THE WHOLE CHOIR PUT TOGETHER.
         
         IT WAS ALSO NO SECRET TRACI HATED HER WITH A PASSION,AND THAT CLAE WOULD
         
         HAVE RATHER STRANGLED HER THAN AGREE WITH HER.
         
           DRAKE LAUGHED AT HIS REVERIE AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.HE BLUSHED WHEN HE

         FELT CLAE’S ELECTRIC STARE ON HIM.HE PICKED UP HIS SPEAR AND WENT INTO THE

         OCEAN TO FISH.
         
         
         
         
         
           AFTER AN HOUR,CLAE HAD CAUGHT SEVEN FISH,DAVE NINE,AND DRAKE REPORTED
         
         HAVING SPEARED THREE.SO THEY HAD NINETEEN FISH.TRACI AND THE YOUNGER BOYS
         
         HAD GATHERED SOME FRUIT AND BERRIES THAT SHE HAD CAREFULLY CHECKED OUT.
         
         CLAE HAD GOTTEN THE FIRE BURNING AGAIN,AND HAD COOKED THE FISH AS WELL AS
         
         SHE COULD.SHE FUSSED AND FUMED AND MADE THEM EQUAL PORTIONS AND SIZE.TRACI HA
         
         JUST THROWN EACH KID A BANNANA AND TOSSED THEM SOME BERRIES AND FILLED THE
         
         COCONUT SHELLS SO THEY COULD BE PASSED AROUND.AFTER THE KIDS HAD EATEN AND
         
         DRANK,MOST CURLED UP ON THE BEACH OR UNDER A PALM.LAURI HAD GONE SKINNY