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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     A little more than an hour to go  
before we had to leave, and I wondered 
if that was enough time to do a quick  
patrol, but then remembered about Beth.
     I started to get down on one knee,
but Beth would have none of it.        
     “Not until you take care of those 
poor animals in the kitchen. Put the   
one you're taking with us in a hundred 
extra-large garbage bags, and the other
one in two hundred bags, and then put  
them back in the bags they came in.    
     “After that, put the other one out
in the shed. Please. We'll bury him    
tomorrow, by that big oak tree, way in 
the back.”                             
     “Ok, but a hundred bags, Beth?”   
     She waved both her hands quickly, 
“Ok, ten or twenty, but no less.”      
     She meant it too.                 
     I turned to go. I was suddenly    
getting deeply depressed.              
     I guess, she could sense it,      
because she put both her hands on my   
shoulders, gave me one of her crooked  
smiles, and sighed.                    
     “I know how hard this is for you, 
because I know you, but that don't mean
I have to like it. Now, get in there   
and do your job, and then get back out 
here to propose to me, so we can go get
that damn Cat of yours,” she said,     
while pointing into the kitchen.       
     I saluted her, “Yes sir. On my way
sir,” and did exactly that.            
     By the time I was done, it was    
almost eleven-thirty.                  
     Finally, I was able to get down on
one knee again, and hoped that this    
time, I’d be able to finish.           
     “Beth,” I said, and then took her 
hand. “Before I met you, happiness was 
just a concept to me, but you’ve made  
it real, and now I know what all those 
sappy songs on the radio mean.         
     “Yesterday’s, was nothing compared
to the love I have for you today, Beth,
or the love I’ll have tomorrow, or all 
the tomorrows forever after.”          
     I took her other hand, “Beth, will
you marry me?”                         
     Beth looked shocked, and then     
finally said with tears in her eyes,   
“Wow!” and then quickly added, “Wait a 
minute. That sounds a little familiar. 
Isn't that from that TV show...”       
     She stopped herself, and instead, 
squeezed my hands, “of course, I'll    
marry you, and not just because I love 
you, but because without you, my life  
would be just one long boring trip     
around the sun, year after dreary year.



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