" Mallory and Jessi had gotten another report.

“Benny Ott told me he heard it was a family of four in the car,” Mallory said, “but only the daughter was killed.”

“So it’s a girl,” Claudia said in a shaky voice.

Outside the cafeteria, I could see several girls sobbing and hugging each other. I watched as Trevor Sandbourne put his arm around his girlfriend, who wept into his shoulder.

Part of me wanted to ask them to tell me what they knew, but another part of me didn’t know if I could bear the news. Clearly, whoever had been killed had a lot of friends at SMS. Was I one of them? "

― Ann M. Martin , Mary Anne and the Memory Garden (The Baby-Sitters Club, #93)