She didn’t have a change of clothes that would allow her to use the store’s bathroom, so that would be out of the question. She’d have to ride her bike home wearing poopy shorts and clean up when she got there, and of course then her parents would see what she’d done…
She snapped back to reality as the girl and her mother finished at the register and headed out the door, their shopping cart now full of white plastic grocery bags. Apparently the girl would have to wait at least until the groceries were loaded in the car before she would get a change. The cashier rang Hailey up, and she paid with the cash her father had given her. An insincere smile was all that was necessary to counter the equally insincere “Have a nice day” the cashier had given her, and she found her way outside to her bike and started riding home.