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Rich stood over a fallen price. She glanced at the bottle in her hand and whispered, "I'm so sorry, Price."
Sammy stared at Rich. All he could think was: where did she get that bottle? All he could really know for sure was that one second he realized he lost Price forever, and in the next second she was on the floor. It happened too fast. Rich just came out of nowhere and forced some liquid down Price's mouth.
Sammy would have done something, but he was too frozen to move.
Rice started to pull Price from her hands, and then stopped. She looked at Sammy and asked, "Aren't you going to help me?"
Sammy blushed. "Oh, yeah,"
He grabbed her legs and together they dragged her over to Rich Dad's van. They put her in the back and made sure she was still breathing.
"Whew," Rich said, "I got to start working out." She stared at Sammy and felt queasy that he was Danny's twin brother. She felt even worse when she realized that she still knew what happened at the bar. Thanks to Price, now I owe Catherine, Rich thought.
Sammy rolled his eyes. He looked back at Catherine's house and asked, "So, what now?" For some reason, that question brought him back to the day his cousin, Gabriel, died on Price's birthday.
But back to reality, Rich smiled. "We report to Catherine and prepare the trap for Cammie."
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"What now? What are we going to do now?" Preston asked.
Liz straightened her back and said, "We go to wherever you were going."
Preston asked, "Why?"
"Because you work for Catherine," Cammie said as she crossed her arms.
Preston nodded, finally understanding why. He rubbed his arms and said, "Then, let's go to 191 Bloom Street."
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He was there and perfectly fine. Not a scratch and he was also in good shape. He looked nothing like the middle school kid who was framed, or Price's twin. Indeed, he looked more like a stranger that you met but never saw again.
"Hey, Zach," Mike greeted as he got up and walked over to the living room, with Catherine close behind. Zach unfroze and slowly walked after them. He's out. He… he knows my mother?
Catherine, noticing her son's confused face, asked, "Zachary, are you okay?"
Zach stopped by the doorframe and said, "I don't know, you tell me."
"What's wrong, Zach?" Mike asked as he took out his phone.
Before Zach could answer, the doorbell rang. Catherine smiled. "That would be our prey."
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"I am stupid,"
"No, you're not, sweetheart."
"Yes I am!"
"Geez, someone's moody!"
"Of course, I am!"
"Please lower the volume! The neighbors might hear you!"
"Lower the volume? Do you think they care?!"
"Stone, shut it."
"I can't! I'm still worried that my daughter, my daughter, might tell the board the truth!"
"Trust her!"
"She's a teenager!"
"We were both teenagers, too."
"But she's more… more…"
"Talkative?"
"Yes!"
"You know what? Why don't you just tell the board that the last-"
"They won't believe me."
"Why?"
"Don't you remember when they met her?"
Silence.
"Told you so,"
"But at least try!"
"I'll talk to her about it."
"Why are you here and not working?"
Silence.
"Answer me!"
"She, um, she,"
"What did she do?"
"She cut school."
Silence.
"I'm sorry! I just couldn't call her and yell at her like you do!"
"I do it to educate her!"
"It's more like you're breaking her ears."
"Whatever,"
"I'll just talk to her."
"Fine, but who really got the highest SAT score?"
"Elizabeth Sutton, but she took it six times and got a perfect score."
"And she's still in high school?"
"Yeah, apparently she wants to try to lead a normal high school experience."
"Wow, I would have gotten out of that prison already."
"Hey!"
"What?"
"Never mind,"
"So, why did you tell her to tutor them?"
"Because she mostly knows everybody and Danny and Selena are also good leaders."
"You do know that this is partly your fault."
"What? You're supposed to agree with me."
"You're the one who told her a crime!"
"Again, it's not a crime, just a misunderstanding!"
"Sure,"
"Are you being sarcastic with me?"
"I'm not one of your students."
"Oh, sorry, old habit,"
"Old habit?"
"Yeah, not I just glare at them."
"Nice,"
"So, um, how do we tell her?"
"We?"
"Awesome!"
"Wait, what?"
"You said we in French which means yes, so now you'll help me!"
"What, no!"
"You said yes."
"I meant 'we' as in us."
"Nope,"
"Who taught you that trick?"
"Our daughter,"
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Ring, ring!
Rich stopped and looked at the floor. A phone.
Sammy noticed the phone and picked it up. He frowned. "It's Price's mom."
"Don't answer." Rich replied as she continued to walk down the street towards the tool shop Zach entered earlier in the day.
"I should answer it." Sammy argued as he followed Rich.
"Why?" They walked a little faster, ignoring the confused looks they were receiving from the adults.
"Because if you don't answer Mrs. Price, well, she won't stop calling."
"So? We could just turn it off."
"She put a tracker on it!"
"Whoa,"
"Yeah, it turns on right before the phone is turned off."
"Hmm… all right, but how are you going to answer?"
Sammy grinned. "I'll just mumble and try to say that I'm chewing or something."
Rich stopped and stared at him. "Do you actually think it will work? Are you stupid or something?"
Sammy glared at her and said, "It has worked before, you know."
Rich sighed. "Fine, go ahead. Get caught."
Sammy quickly answered before the call would end.
"ASHLEY PRICE STONE! HOW DARE YOU CUT SCHOOL AND TEACH YOUR FATHER THAT INSANE-
"
Sammy hanged up and said, "Yeah, we shouldn't have answered that."
"You think?!"
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Hello! Sorry for the really late update, but with Hurricane Sandy and school, I haven't had much time to update. The dialogue part was actually my first time to write something like that. If you guys didn't get it, the conversation was between Mr. and Mrs. Price, also known as Mr. and Mrs. Stone (legally).
Hope you liked this quick filler :)
~WeirdButCool