AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 11: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th

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     Even if a customer requested it,  
and even if it was a year’s worth, it  
would only be around six or seven      
cents, or something ridiculously small 
like that.                             
     It really wasn't that big a deal  
when you were only talking about one   
customer, but when a bank had hundreds 
of thousands, or even millions of      
customers, that could add up to a      
couple thousand, or even a couple      
hundred thousand dollars, per bank, per
year.                                  
     That’s a lot of money to be       
stealing from customers.               
     “My friends go in and hit twenty- 
five banks a month, making sure to hit 
different ones every month. They take  
twenty-five percent of that money, and 
then rewrite their books. From what    
they tell me, there are hundreds of    
thousands of banks in the world, and at
only twenty-five a month, it'll take   
forever to get through all of them.”   
     That’s what I remembered seeing in
that an old Superman movie with Richard
Pryor. He was the computer tech who    
figured out how to do that very same   
thing, but ever since, I’ve always     
wondered if banks did that, and if they
did, what could you do to stop them?   
Even after fifty years, all you’d get  
is four dollars.                       
     Maybe it was true, or maybe the   
Cat didn't want to tell me the real    
story. Her friends were really bank    
robbers, and they were in prison, and  
that's who we were supposed to help    
escape.                                
     I had to chuckle about that for a 
second. What an absurd idea, I thought,
and that got me chuckling again.       
     “What's so funny?” the Cat asked. 
     “I was just laughing at the idea  
that your friends were in prison for   
bank robbery, and that's who you want  
us to help escape.”                    
     “It's a reasonable assumption, I  
guess,” the Cat said after a couple    
seconds of silence.                    
     “What does that have to do with   
the mice?”                             
     “Nothing really. It just proves   
how resourceful they are,” she said but
had that worried look again.           
     “And now, you have to go. Tomorrow
we finalize the schedule, and then I'll
be free! But now, you’ve got to leave.”
     When I did, the door slammed shut 
behind me with an almost silent        
whooshing sound.                       
     “I hope you’ve got a good plan,” I
heard her holler through the vent.     



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CHAPTER 11: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th
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