AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 13: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31st

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     Dejected, I walked back out to the
break room to actually use the com-    
puters to check the animal abuse sites.
     While I finished printing out the 
most recent ones, I realized that at   
least for today anyway, my lie wasn’t a
total lie anymore.                     
     I turned off the computer and     
greeted my co-workers. Some of them    
looked like they were still sleeping,  
and half were wearing mouse ears.      
     Alicia looked the best. Not only  
because she was wearing furry mouse    
ears, but because she also had a       
painted white nose, and whiskers.      
     When she wiggled her nose, it made
her look cute as hell, and when I told 
her, she blushed.                      
     She was like that.                
     I then said goodbye and ran off,  
well, walked away really fast. I didn't
want to make it obvious, but I also    
didn't want to just dwaddle around     
either.                                
     I turned the corner, and like the 
end of that bridge in my burlap bag    
story, the Oh Oh Room looked like it   
was miles away.                        
       As I got closer, and I don’t    
know how exactly, but I could tell the 
room was empty. I looked in the window 
before going in, and no one was        
standing guard in front of the door to 
the Secret Room anymore.               
     Had I imagined all that? Was I    
really going crazy? A talking Cat will 
get you thinking like that, believe me.
     Once inside, I listened for a     
minute. Nothing, I couldn’t hear a     
sound. I pulled the garbage bags out of
the cans, making as much noise as I    
possibly could and waited.             
     Two minutes later, I saw something
being slipped under the door of the    
secret room.                           
     Oh, oh, I thought, and jumped onto
the desk next to the vent, “Amy! Are   
you alright?”                          
     The sound of a creaking vent met  
my ears, “Just be sure to be here at   
fifteen minutes past midnight tonight  
and read my note.”                     
     I tried to ask her what was going 
on, but was stopped dead cold, “Just be
here tonight at fifteen minutes after  
midnight,” and then added like she was 
spitting out dirt, “Asshole.”          
     “Amy!” I hollered again, but all I
got in return was the sound of a creak-
ing vent. I jumped down and scooped the
paper off the floor, folded it without 
reading it, and then put it into my    
back pocket as fast as I could.        



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