““Thirty, forty miles?” “Well,” said Lila, verbally pouting. “I guess we’d better settle in for a long trip.” She pushed her body even harder against Raj, then glared at the side of her father’s head. Lila and Trevor got along with Meyer, but they were still teenagers. Piper, recently a teen herself, tried to understand, but often there was no use. Somewhere around your twenty-second birthday, teenagers started sounding like melodramatic idiots no matter what you did. “That’s another reason to get a hotel room,” Piper said. “They might let planes fly again. We can take the Gulfstream.””
