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tall mug of
coffee for herself. "You should be cuddling babies, not looking
after strays."
    Liz couldn't even begin to argue her
position, because her parents would have thought her insane.
    Nobody would ever believe that her latest
pet was actually a handsome man in disguise.
    She had hardly believed it herself, even
after watching him magically transform.
    Only now he might be...
    She couldn't bring herself to even think the
word as she ran for the new rotary phone that sat on the far end of
the kitchen counter.
    Cranking the dial with shaking fingers, she
desperately for an answer, but the phone simply rang and rang.
    Punching the disconnect lever, she tried
Beth's home, and received an answer on the third ring.
    "Hello?"
    "Hello Mrs. Farren, could I please speak to
Beth?"
    "I'm sorry dear, she just left. I believe
she is walking down to the mercantile to meet Judy."
    "Thank you!"
    Uttering a hasty goodbye, she turned to her
father.
    "Daddy, can I borrow the car?"
    "Sorry kiddo, I'm heading down to the club
after breakfast. You'll have to ask your mother to use hers, or I
could drop you off somewhere along the way."
    "Please Mom, it's an emergency."
    "A cat is not an emergency," her mother
argued.
    "I met a guy last night," Liz countered,
concocting a small lie to help her cause. "The cat is his. I
shouldn't have let it out of my sight. Please Mom, I'll never
forgive myself if something bad has happened to him."
    She was on the verge of tears now, imagining
a broken gray body lying helpless alongside the road.
    "Alright, but have it back before dinner
this time."
    "Thank you!"
    Grabbing the keys off their peg she was out
the door before her mother could change her mind.
    "Please don't be hurt," she prayed to any
god or goddess who might be listening.
    There was a wide main street that ran
through the center of town and was crisscrossed by a few dozen
smaller roads.
    She could search for hours and never find
the right one without some idea of where her friend had been
going.
    Donna would likely be at the mercantile with
the others. And if not, they should know where to find her.
    The mercantile was within easy walking
distance, but she might need the car later to search for the cat or
make an emergency trip to the veterinary clinic.
    Her heart was in her throat as she pulled up
in front of the old red brick building, which held a central
location in town, making it a common gathering point for her
friends.
    Judy and Beth were sitting at one of the
small tables out front, each of them sipping a soda and watching
some boys working on a truck at the garage across the street.
    The girls waved at her as Liz jumped out of
the car and hurried towards them.
    "Have you seen Donna? Do you know where she
is?" Liz gasped, fearing that every lost second might cost her
dearly.
    "Sweetie, what's wrong? You look as if
you're about to cry." Beth was instantly at her side, ready to
offer her support in whatever crisis Liz might be having.
    But how did you tell your best friend that
you'd fallen in love with a cat, and now he might be seriously
injured or dead?
    "I need to find Donna," Liz repeated through
her tears. "Do you know where she is?"
    "I think she was just doing some errands
around town," Judy offered, looking uncomfortable. As a
rough-around-the-edges tomboy, the poor girl was always unsettled
by tears.
    "She was going to the library first, then
dropping of some clothes at the dry cleaners. I'm not sure what
else, but she's supposed to meet us for lunch at Skippers. You
could catch up with her then."
    "That will be too late!" Liz wailed, but it
might already be too late. She had no idea how badly Johnny might
have been injured, and here she was wasting time trying to track
down the one person who might be able to tell her where he was.
    Turning she ran back to her car, ignoring
the calls of distress from her friends.
    She had to find Johnny. She had to do share
she could to save him.
    Making a sharp U-turn in the street, she
raced