"No exceptions?" Beverly asks, smiling like she's teasing, but mostly testing the waters. Next time, if there is a next time, she'll probably just have to be more careful about where she goes or what she does with her time. While it's not like she can just skip school every time she has P.E., though, she hasn't yet come up with a better alternative, unless she can find a good way to cut that particular class without actually leaving campus. Someone will catch on sooner or later if she makes this a pattern, and she doesn't know what she'll say or do then, but that's something to deal with later.

Right now, she kind of just wants to enjoy having a free day off that she doesn't have to spend seeing a doctor or in bed.

"'Cause the whole bowling and lunch thing sounds like a pretty good deal." Even if she isn't entirely sure why he's being so nice to her, she doesn't think there's anything more to it than that, either. People aren't usually quite that hard to read, and he seems genuine, not angling for anything unpleasant. That's good enough for her.