Prettyinpinkgal: To be honest, I'm a little disturbed myself. I think one can safely say that in the past few chapters, snot hit the fan.
Disclaimer: I don't own "Tuck Everlasting".
FOSTER EVERLASTING
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: MORNING TO NIGHT, PART V
"Nothing," Jesse growled. "Not a single trace of her in my zone! I was banging on everyone's door two hours in, asking if anyone had seen her, and no one!"
"I miss the old Treegap," Miles growled. "Much smaller and easier to handle."
Natasha clenched her fists. "Isn't there anything we can do? James, did you hear anything?"
"Only that some girls loved her dress. Besides that, nothing."
"For heaven's sake!"
This exclamation came from Tuck, and this fact disturbed the group so much that they all began talking on top of each other, yelling that they needed to check the other towns, that surely she was in the forest, that obviously one of the townsfolk lied and they needed to go through Treegap once again...
"Wait!" Jesse suddenly exclaimed, drawing everyone's attention grudgingly towards him. In his hands was the map of Treegap. "We missed it, because it's pretty far out of town, but look: There's the church. It couldn't hurt to check."
"I'll see if I can find when the next train tickets out of Treegap are," volunteered Miles. "You two can go check out the church."
Under less desparate circumstances, Jesse and James might have argued with this decision, but today they agreed without a second thought. Petty jealousies were set aside under the single goal of finding Winnie, which might also come with a satisfactory revenge on the killer.