Lakhasly

"You're quiet," said Tom. "Weirdly
quiet.
"Just tired, 1 guess."" And worried.
So very, very worried.
We were lying on our beds in our
room. Wed put bookshelves down the middle so we could each have a little privacy, but we could still talk to cach other."I'm trying to figure Out how the hell to connect this thing to the keyboard, SC Tom said. "What are nok doing?" I'm trying to.fgure out how the hell 01 save Uncle Dave from going to jail. wasn't going to tell Tom anything But until I'd talked to Uncle Dave. thought
maybe IJ! could Just make him see
sense, IJ! could 18 him to somehow
turn over the stuff, maybe we wouldn't
even have to involve Mom.
"Nothing. Just lying here.
"Well, op something. Read a book.
Watch a show. Hey, Iknow! Spy Maybe
We`ll catch those thieves. Want to play a
round?"
Spy is a game OM have been playing
we were young. It ST simple
since
Basically it 1nvolves each JO Sn looking
1no the window with our binoculars
That's
pue seeing what we can
It. spunos lame, I know, maybe even
crecpy. But it isn't. Nothing much to
goes on, so the pors
take very regular, boring ino things pue
make them punos funny or ridiculous,
From our room, we can only see the
sides Jo some houses, patches JO street,
backyards. Sometimes one of us used to
o8 into Mom's room, Ads out her window
and report loudly UO what we saw.
"Yeah, sure. Unless this SI 1snf IOJ
Ald Sympathy-spy, Ics said.
Tom laughed. "Nah, this thing ST
pissing me off, Pue I'm tired III look
100 Ino window, pue you look out
R Mom's.
"So, full-spy?"
"Okay Full-spy 1S where M do
running commentary JO what we
TIB seeing, trying 01 make it funny.
For example, a full-spy JO the Greys 7
house might :o8 "Mrs. Grey SI nine
o'clock... garbage bag in each hand...
wait...she stumbles... sdo.1p bags...
we can only 1magine the foul-mouthed swearing|" Mrs Grey runs a Kep care
pue is the sweetest Apel you'1] ever
meet.
We've almost never seen anything
important. KpoqoN interesting lives
near us. But that SEM the Kuuny part. We
əpeu it seem like the 1nnocent people
around Sn were I8101 maniacs.
I clicked off the lights pue went pue
stood 10 Mom's window.
"O'Donnells are watching TV,
Cc
called Tom from our bedroom.
"Breaking Bad.scanning for meth lab
1n their basement..
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"Mrs Sharma scrubbing windows,
1 called back. "Must have been a lot
spattering from that knife attack.
Maybe you had to grow dn with the
game to appreciate it.
Anyway, MM kept it dn IOJ while.
My binoculars SunMs
to right, house
to house, back and forth. Tom was calling out something
about the new C who lived uMOp
way smoking in his backyard. But I
wasn't listening.
Because I pey Just seen something
that made me pause. The house two
doors down from the one behind Sn was
totally dark, But there was little fit-
ting, flickering light upstairs. T could
only Əs it once UT a while. It danced
the back JO the
along the windows
house, sometimes stopping, sometimes
moving 'UO
I pəudo my mouth to play-by-play
to 'WoL Then I closed it.
That SBM B flashlight. A Hittle one,
but it was definitely e flashlight. Who
uses a flashlight in their uMO home?
Nobody. Nobody unless there SI a power
outage. I flicked Mom's bedside light UO
outage ON JO pue
I ran to our bedroom."Tom, Tom, I think the thief is in
there. In that house, I stammered,
pointing out our window. But we
couldn 2t see it very wel] from this angle.
What I didn't say was puV think the
thiefis Uncle Dave.
"What? What makes no/ think that?
Did you see them?"
1S MeS a flashlight-it SeM B pretty
small one, but it was all over the place."
"Well, that doesn't mean it's a thief.
I mean, we've used flashlights in here."
"Yeah, but...'
decision quick B opeu I
"T'm just going to go over there for a
second. Just to see. "9
L, uop A know if that's a good idea,
Charlie I can 2X help you.
Tom pointed
01 his cast. "What J! things o8 south?"
"I'm not going to do anything
Stupid.
I'll 1snf see what can see. That's all,
It's, like, three houses away. You
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