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process, and grabbed for the soap.
    But I didn’t
wash for a few minutes. I just stood there, letting the scolding hot water hit
the top of my head.
    I crossed my
arms.
    And I started to
pray.
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    Our plane took
off forty-five minutes late ; no surprise there. The
biggest surprise was that our plane took off at all. After all the breaking news
about the strange rapid aging cases, I figured by mid afternoon that all air
traffic in the world would be stopped until someone could determine what was
causing the life-altering problem.
    “A witch!” I
wanted to shout. “There’s a witch! Her mom died so she’s pissed! And she wants
to destroy the world!”
    “Cam?”
    I turned to my
left to see Liesel staring at me with intense focus, as if she had been doing
so for the past five minutes.
    “What?”
    “Do you want to
talk about it?”
    “About what?”
    She sighed and
gave me a knowing look. “You know what. About what we’re gonna do when we get
back later today.”
    I immediately
darted my head around to make sure nobody, including the rest of my family,
could hear us. My parents and Kimber were seated two rows back, far enough away.
There was an old woman sitting next to Liesel, but she had headphones on, and
appeared to be engrossed in an episode of 30
Rock that was playing on the big screen.
    “Let’s… please…
be quiet about it,” I said.
    “OK, here’s the
thing,” Liesel whispered. “I don’t really know where Hannah is. But I do have a
place we can start—”
    I sighed and
literally felt an ulcer start forming in my stomach. “She could be anywhere,
Leese. Anywhere .”
    “I know.”
    “We have no
time. By the end of today, people are going to start going insane , do you understand?”
    “Of course I
do.”
    “It’s not just a
matter of if we can find your sister, which seems
unlikely. Within days there’s going to be no way of traveling, no way of getting anywhere. We’re gonna be the only two people not aging, and people, very shortly, are
going to find out about us.”
    “Not for a
while, Cam. And as long as we leave Reno, nobody will ever suspect that
we—”
    “How old are we,
Leese?” I asked, leaning into her, double checking over her shoulder to make sure the old woman with the funny glasses wasn’t
listening to us. She definitely wasn’t; she was sound asleep.
    “Nineteen.”
    “Nineteen. So
in… what… seventeen days, the youngest person on the planet is going to be our
age. After that? We’re gonna be the two youngest people
in the world.”
    “You’re right,”
she said. “We have three weeks to stop her. But I promise you, this is all
gonna blow over by then.”
    “But what if it
doesn’t? If we can’t solve this aging problem soon, we’re gonna have to go into hiding. And then how are we gonna be
able to find and stop your sister? I mean… what the hell are we—”
    Without warning,
Liesel kissed me. And not just a little bit. She stuck her tongue in my mouth
and just started going to town. I kissed her back—what sane guy
wouldn’t—but I pulled away quickly.
    “What… what was
that for?”
    “A guy across
the way was staring at us,” she said. “Don’t look behind you.”
    I did anyway. I
didn’t recognize the guy.
    “Let’s talk
about this when we get home,” I whispered to Liesel. “ There’s too many people around.”
    “I agree. But
Cam… you have to know…”
    “What?”
    “We’re not gonna
be staying in Reno for long. As soon as we land—”
    “I know,” I
said.
    She nodded.
“OK.”
    I stared forward
for a moment, not knowing if I should go to sleep, make more conversation, or
just start bawling in front of all the passengers.
    Instead, I took
Liesel’s hand in mine and stared forward at the TV screen, which had just
turned from 30 Rock to a black
screen.
    “Thanks for your
patience everyone,” a female voice said over the speakers. “We will now begin
your in-flight movie, The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button . Thank