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Catch Me If You Can - Part 9
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-----Day 11-----
When Bert woke up at 11:30 the next morning, Gerard was still asleep. He decided to leave him be and go make coffee, thinking that would wake him.
It did, but only long enough to drink it.
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Catch Me If You Can - Part 8
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-----Day 8-----
“Bert, I finished off this roll of film,” a soft, melodic, Jersey-accented angel’s voice spoke.
Wait. His eyes flew open. Jersey-accented?
He sat up and looked across the room to where Gerard was sitting on the edge of his bed, blankets tucked around him. ( Read more... ) -
Catch Me If You Can - Part 7
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“Oookay... We now have a suitcase, a toiletry bag and clean underwear... What else?” Bert asked, leaning heavily on the cart.
Gerard stared as a couple of older women walked past and crinkled their noses. “Deodorant and fresh clothes,” he stated firmly.
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Catch Me If You Can - Part 6
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“Foooooooooood,” Bert moaned. “I need fooooooooood.” His stomach growled.
“Even after you ate all the fruit!?” Gerard squawked, momentarily taking his eyes off the road.
“Yes!”
“I. Cannot. Believe you.”
“Why? Jus’ listen to my tummy.”
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Catch Me If You Can - Part 5
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After getting the car cleaned out and the tank filled back up, they headed off again with Bert once more driving. He’d picked up some more tourist maps and had also had the brains to use one of the computers tucked away in the corner to print out instructions to roughly where they were going.
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Catch Me If You Can - Part 4
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It was rapidly approaching 9PM and Gerard had been driving for an hour. He’d swapped with Bert again when he’d caught the younger boy with heavy eyelids. Bert was now fast asleep across the backseat.
It’d gotten chilly at about 6:30 so they’d ended up putting the top of the car back up to keep out the cold wind. ( Read more... ) -
Catch Me If You Can - Part 3
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After driving through a McDonald’s and getting breakfast and coffee, they resumed their search for a Wal-Mart.
“Any other day, there’d be one on every fuckin’ corner. But today, nooooo.” Bert took another bite of his bacon and egg McMuffin as he turned onto a main road. He continued to curse around his mouthful of food.
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Catch Me If You Can - Part 2
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It was a little before 8pm when they left Gerard’s house and it was about 8:30 when they arrived in New York. Traffic hadn’t been bad, but it hadn’t been great either. They drove around for 15 minutes until they found a small shopping mall with an ATM and a grocery store.
Both Bert and Gerard jumped out of the car and headed for ( Read more... )