The Eight Year Ledger novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: Election Day
"Then he'll need more votes than me," I said.
The lawyer laughed.
Gabe took my hand, and we got in the elevator, and we didn't wait to find out.
That afternoon a letter came from the superintendent.
It went to every third-grade family.
Due to the pending criminal matter, all PTA-funded student travel is on hold until the board directs otherwise.
The trip wasn't cancelled.
It was frozen, which was worse, because nobody had to vote to freeze it.
Gabe read it over my shoulder at the kitchen table.
"Does that mean no Saturn?"
"It means not yet."
He went and got his science magazine and put it back on the shelf, very carefully.
On Tuesday, March third, I was up at four-thirty.
The polls opened at six-thirty, in the Brookside gym.
The room parent was in my driveway at five-fifteen with two thermoses and a box of stickers that said SHE WROTE IT DOWN.
"Dottie designed them," she said. "I printed six hundred. She said that wasn't enough."
There was a line painted on the school sidewalk, a hundred feet from the gym doors.
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