She sat with an ice pack on her head. Well, it wasn’t exactly an ice pack. It was a bag of rapidly thawing peas. The paramedics rushed around trying to get her to explain how she had been injured in the car accident and exclaiming that it was fortunate that she was so close to a house when it happened. She didn’t know what to do? Her friend would get in serious trouble if she told the truth, that they were borrowing a car to practice parallel parking and they panicked and slammed on the breaks and a huge trophy, with the engraved words Edmonton hockey league had flown from the backseat and slammed into the back of her head. She wasn’t sure where the peas had come from, but she did know that while they were not supposed to have the car, the car owner wasn’t supposed to have the trophy.
