AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 14: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31st

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Friday, October 31st
 (dictated 1:13 am, Nov 1) 

     While buttoning my clean new      
shirt, I told Beth and Darryl about    
what happened at work. Neither of them 
seemed worried about it, and that      
mystified me a little.                 
     That’s when Rhonda walked into the
kitchen, smiling that evil schoolgirl  
smile that only an arch-enemy can pull 
off.                                   
     She looked so innocent, and that  
was the scary part. She looked like any
other fourteen-year-old dressed in a   
Catholic schoolgirl outfit.            
     The same one her sister was       
wearing when she went missing. She was 
putting herself out as bait, so she    
could catch her sister's abductor, or  
abductors.                             
     I actually feel sorry for the guy,
if she ever gets the chance to be alone
with him or her or them. I’ve heard    
some of the shit she wants to do, and  
man, I thought my fantasies were bad,  
but some of her schemes were also way  
the fuck out there.                    
     I don’t even want to describe     
them, except to say, if you know how to
torture someone with a cheese grater,  
then you know what I’m talking about,  
or what I’m not gonna talk about.      
     It’s actually the least painful   
of all her ideas.                      
     Putting herself out as bait was   
another of her crazy schemes, but no   
one could persuade her otherwise. Even 
her parents were at a loss.            
     She was stubborn and didn't like  
to be bossed around. “My parents give  
me enough of that shit. Thank you very 
much,” she was fond of saying, and     
would add with a giggle, “I already    
gave at home, but thanks for asking,”  
and then she’d curtsey.                
     Even though I opposed her joining 
the group, I was also secretly glad    
that she had. She was one hell of a    
computer genius and could get in and   
out of almost anything, high security  
or not. She even knew how to code chips
and build her own apps and computer    
gadgets.                               
     I’ve probably explained all that  
before, but I was also glad she came   
tonight. I just couldn't tell her that,
or the other thing either.             



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