“I looked everybody up, including 
you, but I already knew most of it from
Barry, except for Scratches. That was a
big surprise.”                         
     “I know. You wanted to shoot me,  
remember?” I asked, and before she     
could answer, added, “I also looked you
up.”                                   
     “You bastard,” she said, hitting  
me with one pillow, and then the other.
     I pretended to go flying across   
the room, slammed into the wall, and   
slumped to the floor unconscious, all  
in slow motion.                        
     It almost made her smile.         
     “Why didn't you tell me that you  
knew about my secret friends?” I asked 
and got up off the floor.              
     “The same reason you didn't tell  
me,” she said, and then threatened me  
* with another whack-attack, before con-   
tinuing, “I was also afraid you’d want 
me to leave.”                          
     I took a step back, “But, how’d   
you know I called them my secret       
friends? I don't ever remember saying  
that to you.”                          
     “I heard you on the phone a couple
times,” she said while putting the     
pillows back.                          
     “You can sit back down,” she said 
and fluffed them up.                   
     “Hmm,” I mumbled, and while       
watching her hands, sat back down.     
     “Back in the very beginning, it   
was only me, Pee Wee, Mouse, and Rico, 
a friend of theirs.                    
     “Darryl didn't join us until the  
next year. The same year I met you.    



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