Malcolm can't forget the time he stepped on Charlotte's foot at a party, and blew gum in her hair: "I wanted to call her. I wanted to tell her that I would be in her play after all. I wanted to tell her that it was no big deal, what happened at the dance, that it was an accident.." He has no idea that when he does call her, a catastrophe even worse than the dance is about to unfold, and not only is she "not dancing with him again, she is "never speaking to him again as long as she lives! " Geraldine Ryan-Lush, B.A. (ED), is a multi-award-winning author and former teacher with twenty books to her credit.