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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     He laughed, but then got serious, 
“Why didn’t you just let that other car
go? You had the license plate number?  
That accident was totally  unnecessary,
and you know it.”                      
     “I know, I know, but when I saw   
them laughing, Ijust floored it. I     
didn’t even think about it.”           
     “That’s a pretty damn poor de-    
fense, Crim,” he said, using my nick   
naturally, like he’d been using it for 
years.                                 
     “It’s the worst kind, I know, but 
when the impulses take over, everything
suddenly goes into super slow motion,  
and I know exactly what to do. It’s    
never failed me so far, except  when I 
dived off the bridge. I didn’t get a   
good grip on that branch, and I’m usu- 
ally able to do that, but it did slow  
me down,” I said, almost like I was    
talking to myself.                     
     “Usually? Are you telling me that 
you’re jumping off things on a regular 
basis?”                                
     “Sometimes, yeah,” I said, and saw
the skeptical look in his face.        
     “The trick is in how you fall, and
what you do on the way down. There’s   
always something there to slow you,    
especially if you’re close to the      
building, windows, ledges, fire        
escapes, or anything like that.        
     “If worse comes to worse, I’ve    
always got my magic rope.”             
     “Now see, that’s the kind of bull-
shit that you can’t sell to a guy like 
the DA,” he said and pointed to his    
office.                                
     “I know, but it’s all I got, and  
it’s true.”                            
     “Maybe,” he said, but still looked
skeptical, “but you’re gonna need more 
than that, and that’s why you need what
I got, and what I know.”               
     “Why are you doing all these nice 
things, Randy?” I had to ask. “I don’t 
even know you?”                        
     He thought about it for a minute, 
and finally said, “I know you don’t    
want to talk about it, but at the time,
I didn’t like you. Not one bit, and I  
wanted to take you out back and pistol 
whip you unconscious, and then pistol  
whip you again when you woke up, be-   
cause that’s what I thought you really 
deserved.                              
     “Honestly Crim, I was keeping a   
close watch on you, hoping to get you  
on something good, but after a year...”
he said, stopped, and then sat down    
next to me, like we were old buddies.  



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