Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

Zöe Beck there and gawking, until we realized that we were really late for our first class. Thorsten wanted us to wait for him. On the way, we discussed what we were going to tell Herr Schneider. We could hardly throw open the classroom door and tell everybody why we were tardy, considering that Silvana was in that class. I suggested we get him out of the classroom somehow, maybe even by calling him from the secretary’s office. Michael and Thorsten nodded: Michael because he didn’t have a better idea, and Thorsten because his aunt worked in the office, which is why he always had it easy whenever it came to getting his tardies excused. We ran into Cem on our way to the office. He was

just stepping out of the bathroom, which is where he always went during German class because he couldn’t stand Herr Schneider. Cem wanted to come with us to the office, so as we walked, we filled him in on the news that Silvana’s mother had drowned in the Judenteich. Then we told Thorsten’s aunt about what had happened, and she immediately grabbed the microphone and paged Herr Schneider. After that, Thorsten’s aunt called Silvana’s apartment, but no one answered. They briefly considered calling her father over at the chemical factory. Cem knew the number by heart, since his father also worked at Oker Chemical, but Herr Schneider thought the police had surely

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