AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 14: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31st

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     After I brought them into the     
kitchen, I had to put them on the floor
and not on the table. The surprise came
when I opened the bags.                
     Fucking D had sent me one black   
cat and one white one, obviously not   
remembering what color I’d told him.   
     “He couldn't even remember what   
color I told him.”                     
     I almost called to complain.      
     Almost, but Beth stopped me.      
     “Just let it go,” she said shud-  
dering. “I don't want that man sending 
me kisses over the phone.”             
     After I’d opened the first        
package, I could feel the atmosphere in
the room change slightly. It was like  
being in a soap opera, and my friends  
were the audience.                     
     This was where I was drawing a    
line in the sand and asking them, my   
secret friends, and one arch enemy, and
even Beth, to cross over with me.      
     This was not a fantasy anymore.   
This was real. We could go to jail for 
this, and the two dead cats on the     
floor proved that.                     
     It was like I was saying to them, 
either you're with me, or you’re       
against me. Follow me over this line or
shoot me now.                          
     But, I couldn't ask them to cross 
that line until I explained the risk to
them, and that’s what I did. Getting   
caught was the big risk. Anything else 
would be small potatoes, and then I    
told them my plan.                     
     I went into excruciating detail   
about it, and after more than an hour, 
my arch-enemy, who else, told me that I
was all wet.                           
     “Mouse just thought of a better   
plan, a way better one,” she said,     
nudging her, “Mouse?”                  
     We’d moved operations back into   
the living room, and they were sitting 
next to each other on the couch, along 
with Pee Wee on one end, and Beth on   
the other. I was sitting on the armrest
next to Beth, and Darryl was standing  
behind a chair near his bar.           
     He was making me tired just       
looking at him.                        
     Mouse didn't really say much, but 
she sure could think. Whenever I asked 
for her opinion, she’d gladly give it  
to me, and it always made me think, and
this idea was no different.            
     It was so brilliant, especially in
its simplicity, that I didn’t even have
to think about it.                     
     “You and Beth have been out       
partying. That's believable, because   
it's Halloween,” Mouse explained, “and 
you decided that tonight would be the  
perfect night to propose, but halfway  
through it, you realized that you’d    
forgotten the rings in your other coat,
and unfortunately, that one was still  
at work.”                              



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