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we already had that discussion. I could have sworn that my
punishment for that had convinced you.” Herr Glossner walked past
me and went to the woman. He was very relaxed but the woman looked
mad. She looked right at me. I had a feeling like I was going to get
hit next. That was when I noticed that Herr Glossner had his cane in
his hands.
    I stepped back,
right into my friends. I felt their hands on me again. Something
really wasn't right here. Had our own teacher kidnapped us just so
he could teach us better manners?
    “Go down to
breakfast girls.” He looked at me when he said that. I had the
feeling that he was out to get me again.
    We went down the
stairs and each girl got a bowl of white goo. I thanked the lady who
gave it to me and Herr Glossner smiled approvingly at me. He was
positively grinning from ear to ear at me.
    I sat down at the
long tables that they had in this hall. There were no other girls
here. I heard whispering about that. Herr Schweitzer told everyone to
eat quietly. The bus driver was also there looking at us. They all
had canes in their hands.
    I was scared and
the white goo tasted like banana. I liked bananas in banana form but
never in anything else.
    Some of the girls
were finished and they were being lined up outside of a room. A man
in a white doctors coat came out and nodded at one of the women here.
She grabbed on to Josephine, who was at the front of the line and
pushed her into the room.
    We all heard her
scream no and then someone was whipping her. I looked around
the room. Every eye was on the door. There were three men here, plus
the doctor. I could see three women and hear a couple more talking in
the kitchen. And there were fifty-two of us.
    They just had
canes. If we jumped on them and took their canes we could free
ourselves. I was about to tell everyone what I was thinking when Herr
Glossner spoke to me again.
    “What's the
matter? Don't you like it?” He looked at my bowl; which was only
missing a tiny spoonful.
    I wanted to say
that I was afraid there might be drugs in it but he still had his
cane in his hands and I knew that none of my friends would come to my
rescue. If they wouldn't do it for Hannah, their life long friend
then they wouldn't do it for me either.
    “I don't care
for banana taste in anything but bananas,” I admitted.
    He nodded at me
and looked over at the kitchen. “I'll get you something else.” He
went to one of the women and told her something. She looked at him
like he was crazy and then he gave her one of his looks. She went off
to do what he wanted.
    The whipping
sound had stopped and now I could only hear Josephine crying.
    Herr Glossner was
now over talking to the girls in line to go into the door. They were
nodding at him. He then went table for table and talked to everyone.
When he reached our table he looked at us one by one before he
started to talk. “You all heard what happened to Josephine. You
don't want that to happen to you, do you?”
    Everyone shook
their heads no.
    “Then do what
the doctor tells you to do without any games. Understand?”
    Again we all
nodded.
    “What is going
on here?” Sophie asked him.
    “Just do as you
are told. It will be better for you.” He stood and walked away.
    I peeked over my
shoulder at him. He went to the woman who had given us our breakfast.
She was holding a plate in her hands. He took it from her and brought
it over to me. I now had the feeling that we all needed to eat
something because they were drugging us again.
    He set the plate
down in front of me and smiled at me.
    All eyes were on
me.
    “Thank you,”
I said as I looked at the roll on my plate. There was a knife and a
bit of butter there too.
    He stood there
watching me.
    I slowly picked
up the knife and I noticed that the kitchen lady was watching me too.
    “She is worried
that you will pull something with that dinky butter knife,” he
explained.
    I looked at the
other girls and they were all staring at me while I imagined