AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 7: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th

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     What bothered her the most wasn’t 
what I was thinking, but rather, what  
I’d done. That bothered her way more   
than my fantasies did. Even the ones   
about her, because she loved what I was
doing with the farm, and that seemed to
negate all that other stuff that was   
wrong with me.                         
     She fell in love with all of it at
first sight, including me, and like I  
dictated earlier, moved in a week      
later.                                 
     Nine years ago, this Halloween, I 
ran across an emergency abuse case and 
called Barry.                          
     Unfortunately, he couldn't make it
right that minute, because he was with 
a poisoned black cat, but added, “I’ll 
call my Assistant, and I promise,      
she’ll be right there,” and she was.   
     That’s how Beth and I first met.  
     “I love what I do so much, that if
I could, I'd do it for free,” she told 
me that first time, and then laughed,  
“but then I'd be living under a bridge 
and eating bark.”                      
     Her work schedule was basically   
24/7, and that meant she didn't really 
have the time or money to go to Vet-   
erinarian School, like she wanted. At  
least, not just yet anyway. She took a 
few classes, but always ended up mis-  
sing a lot of them to help Barry.      
     Like me, she also needed to help  
 animals, but for a totally different  
reason.                                
     Shuffles was one of those reasons.
     It also didn't hurt that she liked
working with Barry.                    
     After Beth moved in, he and I had 
a heart to heart and decided to work   
together to at least get her certified 
as a Veterinarian’s Assistant.         
     I helped her study and even went  
to her classes if she got called away  
in a hurry. That’s when my eidetic     
memory came in really handy.           
     Barry knew a couple of the pro-   
fessors out at the University, and he  
worked with them to let me sit in when 
she was gone.                          
     Most of her classes were at night,
so I didn’t have to worry about missing
work. She was gone so much, that I     
started going to some of the classes   
with her anyway.                       
     It was a ten-month course, but it 
took Beth two years to finish it, and  
even though, all she got was a certifi-
cate mailed to her, we celebrated it   
like she’d graduated from College, and 
then framed it.                        



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