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- Authors: Kai Butler
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“That’ll be thirty-seven ten,” the kid working the counter said. He
looked up from the cash register screen, glanced at me, then back
down at the bottle of cheap vodka, bandages, four cups of instant
ramen, and the packets of Gatorade mix.
I could see his mind putting the pieces together in a way that was going
to be very bad for me, possibly bad for him, and definitely bad for Cade.
Then the kid’s phone pinged, the screen lighting up, and his eyes
immediately jumped to it, losing all interest in me and what was obviously
the accoutrements of someone on the run. He picked up his phone, thumbs
moving rapidly as I dug the cash out of my pocket. The kid didn’t even
bother to ask for ID for the alcohol.
When I cleared my throat, he glanced down at the money, sighed,
opened the cash register, and made change. I grabbed one of the paper bags
off the side of the counter and began putting everything in, even as the kid
counted out two dollars and ninety cents precisely.
Money back in my pocket, supplies resting against my chest, I pulled
my hood up and stepped out into the night.
Cars sped by, each one illuminating me briefly with bright headlights. I
cut across someone’s yard, hopped the fence to an alley, and walked a
dozen yards before hopping another fence and cutting back. Then, I hid
behind the rosebush outside a yellow house I had chosen earlier. It grew
over the fence, as tall as me, thorny with full blossoms.
Without a watch or a phone, the only way to pass the time was the
music I could hear faintly from inside the yellow house. Whoever lived
there liked show tunes, the songs moving from a cat con artist to a pretty
catchy song about eating people in sausages.
I found my mind wandering to Cade. I didn’t like leaving him for this
long because part of me wondered what he’d do with all that silence on his
own. No. I couldn’t think like that. He had to be fine because otherwise
what was the point of all of this?
By the time whoever was inside started listening to a guy kidnapping a
ballerina, I knew enough time had passed.
I circled back to the alley I’d initially gone through, passing through it
for another dozen feet before jumping over a fence and going in the
opposite direction, creating a wide spiral route to my destination. When I
was finally sure that no one was following me, I headed to the motel.
We’d chosen a room facing the back, away from the road, the only view
a cracked parking lot and an empty field filled with weeds, a couch, and a
few bags of trash that hadn’t made their way to the dump. Even though I
hadn’t heard anyone behind me, and unless we were in Back to the Future,
no cars could have followed me over the fences, I waited, leaning against
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