Chapter 7

NOW THERE WERE three of us sitting in the waiting room waiting to hear how Dally and

Johnny were.

Then the reporters and the police came. They asked too many questions too fast, and got me

mixed up. If

you want to know the truth, I wasn't feeling real good in the first place. Kind of sick, really. And

I'm scared

of policemen anyway. The reporters fired one question right after another at me and got me so

confused I

didn't know what was coming off.