AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 6: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25th

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     Beth laughed, and then shook her  
head, “I see that you're both going to 
need a couple lessons in sharing first,
before you can have a bunny.”          
     “Like what?” Mary asked, almost   
like she was waiting for the ax to     
fall.                                  
     “Well it’s easy really. First, you
both have to decide on which bunny you 
want, and then a name.                 
     “That’s the fun part really, be-  
cause you can combine names, if you    
can't decide on one, like Hoppy the    
Killer Bunny, or Pixel the Vampire     
Rabbit.”                               
     They both laughed at those.       
     “And finally, you have to agree on
a sharing schedule. How long each of   
you get to hold the bunny? Who does the
feeding, or, you can just decide to    
play with and feed the bunny together. 
That would be a really grown-up thing  
to do. Deciding things like that are   
what grown-ups do all the time. Right?”
She looked at both of them, waiting for
them to say “right” back, like they    
were also grown-ups.                   
     There are three magical words that
all kids like to hear about themselves.
Two of them were “grown-up,” and the   
other was “adult.” It's what they      
wanted more than anything, to be all   
grown-up and an adult, or at least     
treated like one. Beth was using the   
first one, not only because she sin-   
cerely believed they were, I think, but
also because she remembers their magic-
al qualities from when she was a kid.  
     I also remembered them and smiled.
They’d take care of the bunnies, be-   
cause it’d prove how grown-up they     
were.                                  
     Both girls said, “Right,” and then
Beth took them out to choose a bunny.  
     After the girls chose a bunny,    
Bugs, they decided to call it Killer   
because, as Chrissy explained, “She's  
so not.”                               
     After the girls giggled about that
for a couple minutes, everyone agreed  
that was the perfect name for their    
bunny.                                 
     As everyone was leaving for the   
night, including Killer, Randy stopped 
at the door, looked around the place,  
and finally at Beth.                   
     “I think you're both right.       
There's definitely something magical   
going on here, some kind of magical    
yin and yang thing. Unfortunately,     
being a representative of Law Enforce- 
ment, I have to pretend it’s not real  
and deny I said it.”                   
     He turned to me, “Keep in touch,” 
and then was gone.                     



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