Chapter 114

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Eve called Amy after being sent home on Wednesday. She had little else to do, being around Karen at home was awkward these days, and she wanted to hang out with Amy. The two girls hung out and smoked in the woods.

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Amy: So your boss really killed his wife?

Eve: That's what they say. As angry as I was with dad and Karen at least they stopped short of murder.

Amy: It's because of ELE. In the old days he probably would've just left his wife, divorced her, married the other girl.

Eve: And then cheated on his second wife.

Amy: Quite possibly. But now, with ELE coming, they didn't want to waste what limited time they had.

Eve: Still not exactly moral, but yeah. ELE has made just about everything worse. 879 days to go.

Amy: Hope you keep your job. But this means you're free this weekend?

Eve: Yeah, why?

Amy: I need to take a road trip. I leave early Saturday, will come back Sunday evening. Want to come?

Eve: Where exactly are we going?

Amy: It's a suprise. Better if you don't know ahead of time.

Eve: Not very comforting.

Amy: I'm making a delivery for the Sons of Liberty. It is illegal,and dangerous. If you don't want to come, I'll understand. But this will helppeople defend themselves, protect their individual rights. The choice has to be yours, just let me know by Friday.

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Eve thought about Amy's offer. Not long ago, she'd thought her friends were just crazy militia types. But hanging out with them these last two months, they made sense at times. Individuals had the right to build their own shelters, maybe they did have the right to defend these shelters. Colonel Samuels was apparently negotiating with the government. Hopefully theycouldreach an agreement where Mason would provide fuel, livestock, and Samuels would take in other people. But maybe they wouldn't reach an agreement. Thus far Eve hadn't seen anything illegal, mostly angry people venting their frustrations with like-minded individuals. But if she went with Amy, she might see something illegal. Then she'd either have to inform on Amy, or lie to officer Murphy. Either way she'd have to make a choice. She couldn't stay on the sidelines forever. On Thursday Eve told Amy that she was in. .

After Eve agreed to the road trip Amy told her to meet at Amy's house at 8am Saturday. She'd brief her more at that point. Eve was nervous, but excited. She went home, studied for tomorrow's tests, got little sleep. On Friday Eve took her tests, she believed she got at least a B on each of them. After school Eve went to her mosque, and protested outside the clinic briefly. She hoped noone here realized she'd informed on Yusef. If they did, noone said anything. Eve told her father she was staying with Amy this weekend. She still hadn't told Murphy where she was going. Later she could say she was worried about being watched and just had to bide her time before telling him. At the very least Eve wanted to know more about Amy's group before turning them in.