AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 2: MONDAY, OCTOBER 20th

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     “You’ve got good instincts, babe, 
and if we were being chased by a truck-
load of gangsters, you’d be the man,   
but you drive like that all the time.  
It’s nerve-racking.”                   
     “You know I was a stunt driver,   
right? I took classes and everything.” 
     “What’s that got to do with any-  
thing? And besides, you were in one    
movie, and it wasn’t even real. It was 
some high school project, and you      
didn’t even drive more than thirty     
feet.”                                 
     “It was a college project, and I  
drove over a hundred feet.”            
     “I’m sorry to tell you  this, hot 
shot, but driving back to do a reshoot 
does not make it a hundred feet.”      
     “It does in my book.”             
     “Yours must be out of print, be-  
cause mine says thirty,” and that got  
us going round and round, jumping from 
subject to subject, like we always did,
until Barry called.                    
     Usually, I’m not around on Monday 
to do a round and round with Beth, but 
after what happened last Wednesday, I  
decided to ask for a couple days off.  
     I got up like  usual on Thursday  
morning, turned the TV on, and then    
called Alicia.                         
     Beth usually got up with me and   
made coffee, unless she’d been up late,
but other than the bunnies, last night 
was a quiet night for her.             
     She was in the kitchen singing    
that song that used to frustrate the   
hell out of me, because I couldn’t     
figure out what it was.                
     Alicia answered after two rings,  
“Hello,” and I could tell she was in   
her car.                               
     “Hey Allie. It’s me, Crim,” I said
pleasantly, and then asked for some    
time off because of what happened.     
     “Was that you!? I saw that on the 
news last night, and it’s on the radio 
right now. Here, listen.”              
     I could almost hear the radio in  
the background, but then it got louder.
     “...this mysterious person is? The
license plates were missing from the   
car that caused the accident, and so   
far, the police haven’t released the   
driver’s name. The first officer on the
scene did arrest the driver and pas-   
senger of the car that was hit, but no 
word yet on what the charges were.”    



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CHAPTER 2: MONDAY, OCTOBER 20th
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