AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
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CHAPTER 7: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th

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Sunday, October 26th
 (dictated 8:05 pm, Oct 29) 

     When I first woke up, I didn’t    
know where the hell I was.             
     I squinted my eyes and looked     
around for a few seconds, before remem-
bering that I’d been watching TV and   
must’ve fallen asleep on the couch. The
TV was still on, and that was the      
biggest clue.                          
     I swung over to get up, and my    
feet got all tangled up in something.  
A blanket? What the hell was that doing
on the floor, and then saw the pillow  
and realized that Beth must’ve slept   
there.                                 
     That gave me a nice warm feeling  
inside, but then I felt bad. That      
must've been uncomfortable, because the
mat was still in the tent, and that’s  
also when I heard her singing in the   
kitchen.                               
     Since this was my week to cook, my
plan was to give her a kiss and ask her
what she wanted for breakfast.         
     That was the plan, but instead, I 
stood just outside the doorway and lis-
tened. I could hear the dishes clinking
as she sang, and she really wasn’t that
bad either.                            
     She was singing her favorite song 
but wouldn't tell me what it was. She  
explained that I’d probably hit myself 
in the head with a hammer, when I found
out.                                   
     “Repeatedly. It's that obvious,”  
she always told me, and like always, I 
tried to ignore it, but it was still   
frustrating.                           
     If it was so obvious, why didn't I
know it? It did sound a little famil-  
iar, and the name was always just on   
the very tip of my tongue, but I could 
never shake it lose.                   
     One time, when I was trying to re-
member where the hammer was, I suddenly
realized that Beth probably didn't know
what it was either. That actually made 
more sense than the reason she gave me.
     That made me chuckle at the time, 
but I never brought it up again. I just
listened as she sang her little heart  
out and waited on the other side of the
doorway.                               



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