Chapter 36 - Jimmy

I glance at my watch and then back to the classroom door. What is taking Owen so long? He usually doesn’t take this long to get back from having lunch with Finn and his friends. If he doesn’t hurry, he is going to be late and the professor will start our class without him.

I take another look at the classroom door, and I suddenly breathe a sigh of relief. Owen rushes through the doorway and dashes to the seat beside me.

With a slight frown, he tosses his bag on the table in front of him and plops down in the chair. He lets out a long sigh. “Wow. That was close.”

As my mind wonders what took him so long, I nod. “Yeah. Almost too close.”

He takes his things out of bag and with a ragged breath, he mumbles, “I wouldn’t have taken so long if Finn’s friend, Tommy, didn’t have us looking for some burned eggs. I still don’t have any clue why he kept smelling it, but he was worried someone left something on and it would catch fire. So, we were helping him try to locate where the s