Chapter 3“What about Bear?” Josie asked in a plaintive voice. “I won’t go without Bear.” She stamped her foot on the floor near the window and the water splashed his wool slacks which were already wet around his ankles from his endeavors downstairs.
“I’ll button him inside your raincoat and drop him along with you to the Chief.”
He spoke into the phone, “Did you hear that, Derrick?”
“Got it. First Josie with Bear. I’ll be back for you, I swear I will, Steven.”
“I’ll be okay. It hasn’t made its way up to the second floor yet. It’s only wet beneath the window.” Steven told a white lie so Derrick wouldn’t worry. After all, the creek couldn’t get much higher than this.
“I can always go up to the balcony in the old auditorium and wait it out in the top balcony. There’s an entrance to the b
