"I'm with you."
I tried to smile back, but I couldn't.
"Okay," she said. "If we're going to stay around here, we're going to have to do better. We've been just reacting and hiding. I know that's what you and Jen wanted to do, but we can't live like that. I think the people at the high school had the right idea, they just went about it the wrong way. I think we need to take the town back. If that means we're exterminators, then so be it."
I was sad and angry enough right then to go along with being an exterminator, but that was not the time to do anything except mend.
I nodded my agreement.
"Good," she said, hopping out of the bus. She climbed in the hay truck then motioned me to lead the way.
Rain began to spot up the windshield. I switched on the wipers, pulled out of the driveway, and turned the bus toward Clayfield.
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