The next day he is on a bus to the city, where he rents a cheap room. From this, she knows he is alive, but he does not respond to her calls. She hears a noise outside, steps cautiously out into the yard, and finds the snow globe sitting on the swingset. Millie is not consoled by her mother's arms she is sure that David is dead. But before he leaves town, he stops outside Millie's house. He teleports home and retrieves a small stash of money and a few belongings. It dawns on him that he finally has a way to change his life, to escape his situation, the same way his mother abandoned the family when he was five. He finds himself in the damp aisle of the darkened library and realizes he has teleported there yet again. but when his angry father bursts it open, there is only a swirl of wind - David has vanished. David enters his room, putting a chain on the door. He trudges home, soaking wet, where his father chews him out. He is certain to die in the freezing water, without air, and suddenly finds himself lying prone in the library between the bookcases, in a huge gush of gallons of water, gasping and alive. When he surprises her with a small gift, a snow globe of the Eiffel Tower, teasing bully Mark grabs it and throws it out onto the icy surface of the river.ĭetermined, David ventures out on the ice and retrieves it, waving, then falls through the ice and is swept away from the opening by the swift current. Young teen David Rice has a crush on his classmate Millie, who dreams of traveling the world.
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