Rules With a Capital R

"Yes, like the flower?" she answered automatically, eyes blinking as they refocused from the Possible into the Present. Equally automatically she pushed her glasses up, a gesture that was more fidget than necessity. "I'm fine," she tilted her head a little bit to the side and smiled up at him, JD being a foot taller. "I was just daydreaming a little bit. I really, really can't wait to see the ocean and I was thinking about putting together a flyer or something? To see maybe if anyone else wanted to head over there."

"I mean, if it's allowed. I think it is," she added and you could just tell that in her world there were Rules with a capital R. "In the handbook it said that students could sign out to go off campus so long as they had a buddy and were back an hour before curfew. My mom had to sign the waiver."

"I've never seen the ocean," Blossom said. "I've been to Flathead lake a lot" okay a few times but he didn't have to know that. "It's huge and there's a couple of swimming areas but it's not the ocean. I just know the ocean is a lot better," she enthused. "Don't you think so?"