All right. This chapter is very short, as I said before, really kind of a continuance of the last one, but skipping the eating.

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"Look at this!" Cat shouted, flinging her arms out dramatically. "A bed! A shower! A TV!"

Theo took in the motel room with eyes that had been seeing nothing but tunnels at night for quite a while, and slowly grinned. "I do believe we have died and gone to heaven."

"And heaven has fluffy white towels!" Cat yelped, twirling around the bathroom holding towels like streamers. "Wahoo!"

He laughed at her ridiculous behavior. "What are you on, girl?"

"Life!" she cried, kicking off her shoes and catapaulting onto the bed, where the springs protested as she bouced energetically. "Life is good, life is great, life is so beautiful. Life is hard, life is fast, life is so incredible!"

"You're gonna get us kicked out," he said, trying to be stern but failing miserably.

"Come on, Theo! Celebrate good times, come on!" she sang, at the top of her lungs and wildly off-key. Then, quick as a thought, she backflipped off the bed and scampered into the bathroom. "I get the shower first!" He heard the door lock, waited until he heard the shower start, then kicked off his shoes, climbed on the bed, and jumped until his head spun.

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Oh, and they bribed the hotel clerk so they could be put in under false names. You'll find that out in the story later, but just so you know.

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