"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T HELP ME? YOU USED TO ROLL WITH THE GUY, SURELY YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS."
"HE IS ON A TRIP. THAT'S ALL I KNOW. I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE."
"BUT HERE! RIGHT HERE. THE RETURN ADDRESS. SOMEONE'S EVEN UNDERLINED IT AND WROTE "CROW SENDS HIS WISHES" AND EVERYTHING. YOU CANNOT TELL ME YOU GUYS AREN'T CONTACT."
JACK WASN'T LYING - THIS WAS ALL NEW TO HIM. HE'D BEEN AWAY FROM THE BIKESHED FOR A FEW DAYS NOW AND HAD NO IDEA KILLYOU HAD SENT ANY SUCH POSTCARD. OR MAYBE HE HAD CALLED? WHAT IF HE HAD CALLED ON THE PHONE AND WANTED TO TALK TO HIM? I MEAN HE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE AND DID HAVE THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS TO SAY. THIS WAS AWFUL NEWS.
" LET'S GO TO THE BIKE SHED." HE SAID, STANDING UP.
CARLY JUMPED UP AND DOWN BECAUSE IT IS A REACTION. "SWEET, THANK YOU SO MUCH JACK. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU WERE THINKING JUST NOW BUT IF IT'LL GET ME HIS NUMBER THEN-"
"WHAT ABOUT ANOTHER MAN'S NUMBER?"
"WHAT? NO I WAS SAYING- WAIT YOU WEREN'T LISTENING"
"NO I WASN'T"
JACK WASN'T LYING.
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ONCE THEY REACHED THE BIKE SHED THERE WAS A NEW SIGN "NO GIRLZ ALLOWED :( "
"DID AKI AND YOUSAY HAVE A FIGHT OR SOMETHING?" JACK ACCIDENTALLY SAID OUT LOUD BECAUSE HIS INNER MONOLOGUE FAILED.
CARLY SADDENED. "THAT'S TERRIBLE. AM I NOT ALLOWED IN? THIS IS TERRIBLE. I CAN'T GO IN."
JACK DRAGGED HER INTO THE BIKESHED AS SHE SAID THIS. INSIDE, CROW AND BRUNO WERE CROUCHED BY A DOOR.
"OH, JACK. IT'S YOUSAY. HE WON'T COME OUT OF HIS ROOM. IT'S MY FAULT." BRUNO SAID, "I EVEN TOLD HIM WE WERE GOING TO WORK ON OUR BIKES AND STUFF AND HE STILL WON'T COME OUT."
"BUT YOUSAY LOVES TO WORK ON HIS BIKES AND STUFF" CARLY CHIRPED, IT'S COMMON WIKIPEDIA KNOWLEDGE.
JACK WAS ANGRY "SO JACK ATLAS LEAVES FOR HALF AN HOUR-"
"4 DAYS" SAID CROW.
"- 4 DAYS AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. I WILL FIX THIS. LEAVE IT TO ME."
CARLY COOED, JACK THOUGHT SHE LOOKED LIKE THE BABY OF A PIGEON AND AN OWL.