AmyStrange & the Criminal (Part 1: the Escape) Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 10: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29th << 128 | 129 | 130 >> “She sounds adorable, but now I get to meet everyone, right?” Beth asked, and added hopefully, “Maybe, tonight?” “Why not? There's no reason to keep you in the dark any longer.” I went over to my backpack and dug around inside, until I found what I was looking for. “And, since you are now officially part of the Secret Team, that also means you'll need this,” I said while handing her a walkie talkie. “This is what I use to communicate with everyone else, while they're out patrolling with us.” “And, you've been doing this with- out me, for how long now?” she asked while playing with her walkie, and while pressing the transmit button, added, “I thought we were a team?” After a second, someone on the other end said, “Roger that,” and it sounded like Rhonda. We both laughed. “So, aren't you going to answer my question?” “Of course, we're a team.” “Not that one. The one before it. How long have you been lying about these secret friends of yours?” “The Halloween I met you, was our second time. I already told you that. The patrols were Pee Wee's idea originally. I just organized them, well, Mouse did most of it, but I really don’t see how you can say I was doing this without you or lying about it. “You were right there with me for almost all of them. I just failed to mention that there were other people doing this with us, and that’s not lying. It’s just a simple little communication problem, that we just fixed,” I said with a hopeful smile. She wasn’t buying it, “So, the short answer is almost nine years.” “Technically, it's eight years, because you can't count the year I met you, or the year before that either.” “Whatever, Criminal. You've been doing this for eight years, let's agree on that, and you’ve been keeping me in the dark about all this secret stuff, all that time, right?” She didn’t give me time to answer, but continued like she knew what I was thinking, “Even though I did know what was going on, technically, you didn’t know that I knew, and that’s what makes you guilty of, as you like to call it, a communication problem, or as I like to call it, lying.” << 128 | 129 | 130 >> CHAPTER 10: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29th
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