Then Rikky did something that astonished herself. Something she hadn't done since her grandmother died twenty years ago. She began to cry. The crying turned into weeping and the weeping turned into sobbing as quickly as the fire had spread over Beth's house. Soon Rikky was practically wailing her head off. She had not only lost her good old lobster, but probably Beth, too. She and Beth never quite got along with each other, but the moment that Laura told Beth what Rikky had said, the little love for Rikky in Beth's heart would probably vanish completely. Rikky wondered for a moment if she should call Laura, but then she realized that Beth and Laura were probably already talking now.
Thousands of miles away, Beth was standing by the ashes of her house, the phone still in her hand. It rang. Beth pressed the talk button and held it up to her ear. It was Laura.
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