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Harper
“I have to peeeeee!”
I look over my shoulder at the Martin’s youngest child, Bryce, and
work hard not to purse my lips. We stopped for a bathroom break before
leaving Whitehorse fifteen minutes ago, and he didn’t need to go. Now that
we’re back on the road back to Skagway, under the gun to meet their ship,
he does.
“Brycie, you need to ask politely,” advises his mother from the back of
the van. I glance in the rearview mirror and note that she doesn’t look up
from her phone. “Tell Miss Harper you need to use the restroom. And say
please.”
Instead, Bryce kicks the back of my seat with gusto.
“Toi-let now! Toi-let now! Toi-let now!” he bellows to the machine
gun rat-a-tat of his kicks.
“Ouch! Stop that!” I say, peering around the seat to give Bryce a stern
look.
“But I have to gooooo!” Bryce screeches.
I glance at my brother, Sawyer, who’s behind the wheel. He rolls his
eyes, but his tone is gentler than mine.
“Sure you can’t hold it, Bryce?” he asks.
“If you don’t stop the car right now, Mr. Sawyer, I’m gonna pee my
pants,” threatens the six-year-old.
“Do not do that!” I warn him.
“There’s no need to scream at the little one,” says Mr. Martin, who sits
beside his wife in the back seat, reading a French-Canadian newspaper.
“Urination is a normal bodily function, Brycie. You can’t help it, and it’s
not healthy to hold those toxins inside. Miss Harper and Mr. Sawyer are
going to find an appropriate place to stop so you can relieve yourself.
Immediately.”
His voice doesn’t brook retort, and I really don’t want to lose whatever
hard-earned tip we’ve got coming.
“Fine,” I say. “We’ll stop. Caribou RV Park is coming up in two
minutes. There’s a washroom behind the camp store.”
And if you go quick, you toxic little brat, we can get to the border
crossing before there’s a line.
“A store?” Amelia Martin, who’s been watching a non-stop stream of
TikTok clips without earbuds, slouches in the seat behind my brother. “Does
it have cool stuff?”
“It’s very small,” I say, omitting the fact that there’s a Swiss bakery
on-site. If I tell them there are sweets available, I have a feeling they’ll all
insist on getting out of the van for snacks, and we really don’t have the time
for an extra excursion. We’re cutting it close as it is. “If want to get back to
the Port of Skagway by eight, we really don’t have time for—”
“I wouldn’t mind a bathroom break,” says Mrs. Martin, sighing like
we’ve been on the road for hours instead of minutes. “And I could use a
drink. I’m parched.”
I try to catch her eyes in the rearview mirror. “Ma’am, your ship leaves
at eight thirty and—”
“And it’s only five o’clock right now, correct? And you said it’s a twoand-a-half-hour drive back to Skagway,” says Mr. Martin, leaning closer to
his wife to glare at me in the mirror’s reflection. “That means we have an
extra hour. Plenty of time for a quick stop, for heaven’s sake.”
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