Knowing her son couldn't go, Mrs. Pierce expressed her sympathy, then grabbed her wallet and went shopping for clothes, planning to dress up nicely to watch the All-Star weekend in person.
Last time she went to Madison Square Garden to watch a game, she appeared on the live broadcast, but she dressed very plainly that day. When she later watched the recording and saw herself, she regretted it immensely, so this time she's even planning to wear a big gold chain.
Zhang Hao dragged his suitcase from the room to the living room, looked at Aprile Clark fiddling with the alarm clock, and asked, "Why are you setting an alarm at 9 o'clock?"
"Britney just called, said she's on the bus, and I'll have to go pick her up in a bit. Miss Buss agreed to let her come with us on the private jet."
"Couldn't she just fly over from Berkeley herself?"
"She's just a 15-year-old girl, and she's so good-looking, it's not safe for her to fly alone. It's safer to be with us."
