Beezus was feeling no better than she had been a few minutes before. The caramels that Lex gave her had been very helpful but now that she'd ran out of stock, the sharp pain from her abdomen had once again started searing in and all she could do was wrap her arms around her stomach tightly, bending down her upper body in an odd angle from where she was seated, attempting to stop the course of the pain.

Ugh. Why did girls have to have that kind of dilemma?

This intervened in her earlier plans of hopping from compartment to compartment to say goodbye to her friends, especially the graduating ones. Thus, the more frustrating it became.