AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 12: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th

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Thursday, October 30th
 (dictated 2:32 am, Oct 31) 

     I woke up a little before eleven, 
guzzled down a cup of coffee, and off  
on patrol we went.                     
     Everyone had another little tea   
party, and like the other two nights,  
Beth was also at the center of this    
one.                                   
     I loved it and had to laugh,      
because keeping all this secret, for   
all that time, seems so stupid now.    
     Usually, I had a hard time doing  
two things at a time, but these        
patrols, and the ones Beth and I did   
every night and weekend, were the      
exception.                             
     I could think or talk about other 
stuff and still be aware of everything 
around me and react if anything was out
of place or just didn’t look right. I  
also replayed it the next day while    
mindlessly dumping or unloading cages, 
just in case I missed something.       
     The only exception to that        
exception was when Beth let the arch-  
enemy thing slip. I almost lost my     
ability to concentrate with that one.  
     Luckily, after Beth let that one  
slip, no one brought it up again, not  
even Rhonda.                           
     She made up for it, though, by    
laughing at everything that Beth said  
about me. Occasionally, after catching 
her breath, she’d add, “What a dumb-   
ass,” and that would get everyone going
again. I even chuckled sometimes,      
because her timing, and the way she    
said it, was funny.                    
     Mostly, I was just so relieved,   
and happy, that Beth liked my friends, 
and they also liked her.               
     I could see that these annual     
patrols, now that she was officially   
part of the team, were never going to  
be the same, and that was definitely a 
good thing.                            
     I looked at the clock, and it was 
now only a few minutes away from mid-  
night. Halloween would soon be here.   



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