Chapter III

***1999***

"𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔. 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 2 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 6 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔, 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆."

***2000***~~~~

" 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆, 𝒊'𝒎 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅?, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆. 𝒊 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆."

***2001 𝑬𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓*** ~~~~

" 𝑯𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒊 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒊 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍, 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆. 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅."

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 ***2002***

"𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 ***4*** ***1998***. 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 " 𝑰'𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒊'𝒎 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎." 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒊 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕."

" 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 ***20***𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒗𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌, 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆? 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉. 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 "𝒊 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒙 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔" 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒊 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆."

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 ***26*** ~~~

𝑯𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒔, 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒏.

" 𝒊 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐. 𝒊 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆, 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆?"

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 ***28*** 𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 ~~~

"𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 " 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆!" 𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈. 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 , 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆."

***𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉*** ***29, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍***.

" ***6𝒂𝒎*** 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑴𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅, 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑. 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅, ***9𝒂𝒎*** 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈, 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅. 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐, ***9:45*** 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒖𝒑, 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅, 𝒇\*𝒄𝒌 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑?"

***𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒅***.

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