riley slowly unbuckled his seat belt and edged onto the floor between her and the boy . they would eat lunch in the cafeteria , from plastic bags or colorful lunch bags and talk about what they were going to do that weekend , who liked whom , or what other gossip older teens engaged in . what kind of strings did you pull ? feeling like a total idiot , i abandoned my goods and left the store , unsure what i was going to do now . 