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
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“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.”
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CHAPTER 10: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29th
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