Esther was in shock. She had gotten a ride from Paula to school and she had told her babysitter, but the sitter obviously didn't hear her because the sitter called Esther's dad who was home sick. Her dad then called Esther's mom's work, the public school's transportation department, which was radioed to Esther's bus driver and Esther's mom heard it, and nearly crashed her bus. They then called the school, who by policy had to call the police. Meanwhile, Esther & Paula were waiting for Esther's normal bus. Esther learned about the radio then. Esther and Paula went into school and when the principal, Mr. Joeclark, asked them nicely to go into the cafeteria, and their friend Boogersnot, was chatting to Corrie in the hallway right next to the one they shoud have been in. Esther pointed them out to Mr. Joeclark , he sent them to his office, and they both got detentions. Now Boogersnot and Corrie don't talk to Esther, and she's perfectly fine with that.