His Eagle Eyes on Me

Even Layla was struggling to stay awake.

"Mommy, I think I'm going to write about what happened today in my journal." Layla stared at the photo she had taken.

Hightide Church usually did not allow the taking of photos, but Layla was not sure whether she could take photos or not, and she had asked a nun to take a photo of her and the other children. The nun smiled and agreed.

"Sure! Show it towhen you are done." "Okay, Mommy. Look at the photo. I counted, and apart fromand Robert, there are thirty-two children," Layla said with a smile. "What a coincidence. There are thirty-two students in my class as well." "Now that Rose is gone, there should be only thirty-one children." "Irene left as well!" "Irene doesn't count because she has a family. It's a shthat we didn't get to meet her. She must be a sweet child, like Rose, for Rose to like her so much," Avery said.

to leave simply because Rose left? Didn't the nun say that Irene didn't want to leave? Is that really her grandmother?" Layla asked. "That's

make sense for her grandmother

her." "Oh. Does Irene not have parents? Why else would her grandma take her up to a mountain to live there?"

improve, whereas Irene might not do very well with her grandmother. The two best friends started off in the sposition, but they would soon lead

if they were

and I doubt that the nuns there know much as well," Avery said. "Let's wait and see if Irene calls me!" "Okay." Once they were home, Mrs. Cooper took Robert to his room, while Layla hurried

Layla up with one arm and turned to look

against it. "I am sleepy, too." S "If you sleep now, you won't be able to sleep at night," Elliot said as he accepted the phone Layla passed him and studied the group photo they took. "These little girls all, decent. Why does here?" et ook "She didn't get to see her best friend,