Answer:
A. characters is the answer to your question
1. met
2.is going
3. didn’t
4.is cooking
5.opened
6. sold
7.played
8.telling
9.took
10. finishing
11.watched
12.arrived
13.went
14.took
15.stay or sit
16. buying
17.painting
18. to become
19. did not find
20.finished
21.meet
ill is very nervous or anxious. Don't beat around the bush kinda means don't do something irrelevant so that you can avoid something else that you have to do. Jill's heart becoming a bass drums means that something was causing her heart to beat fast, it could be worry, anxiety, fear, etc. Her face becoming a calm ocean means she calmed down. The spray nozzle is simply being compared to the way an elephants trunk hangs loosely
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