It took them 2.5. hours, but Dee and Abs were simply thrilled with their results. There it was, midst the police messages on the Times website. “Pop duo Daphne & Celeste sought for armed robbery.” (For those among you who don’t know this British couple, they’re two young girls who make insulting songs about other atists. They wre extremely rude to my baby Rich so they’ve completely messed with me-Daphne)
Abs turned to Dee grinning. “This is really wicked. I have always hated them.”
Dee nodded. “With ya there, mate” she replied and looking closely at her friend, she got a great idea. Yeah, he and Amanda would go great together. Now THAT was a wicked idea. She’d hook them up. They’d be grateful…eventually.
“Hey,”said Abs, waving his hand in front of Dee’s face.
“Yeah I’m there. I just for a minute..let my mind fly.”
“Oh, I see. I sometimes do that too.”
“Really?” replied Dee laughing. “Didn’t know you had a mind. And I never saw a yellow vampireteeth bat fly by!”
Whistling Daphne climbed the stairs to Rich’s appartement. For some dark reason she prefered stairs above an elevator. As always, Rich welcomed her with a cheerful “hi”. She smiled back, then said:”I’ve got something for you.” She reached into her pocket and took out a little piece of paper. “Yesterday Safe Management had a meeting “ she started to explain. Rich nodded. “Well, here I’ve got the notes of that meeting.”
The sun was shinig hot when Tamara walked through the park. She sighed and put a wet hairlock behind her ear, wishing she hadn’t offered the accompany Scott home, having to walk all the way home again.
Rich took the paper and looked suspiciously at his friend. “I can’t believe they gave that to you.”
“They didn’t. I took it without them knowing”she answered.
“Daph, that’s stealing” he told her.,br>
She looked painful. “That’s not a nice word, Ritchie.”
“Stealing ain’t very nice, luv.”
“Can’t you just say I lend it?”
“Are you planning on returning it?”
“Not really no.”
“It’s not much of lending then, is it. Really girl, can’t you do anythig in a honest way?” he asked the taller woman exasperated.
“Not if I can avoid it.” She replied. She grinned suddenly. “Change subject. Y’know what you need? Anight out. With a girl.”
“Spiritual horoscope? Karma? Have you been inhaling incense again, you freak?”,br>
“Be nice. C’mon Ritchie.For me. I’ll promise to be good, then. At least, I’ll try. Please.”
“Oh alright. I can’t say no, you know that. What’s her name?”
Daphne smiled satisfied. “Dalish,” she replied. She pronounced the name in an odd way, swallowing the vowels and making a “shh” sound on the end.
“That sounds outlandish. Where’s she from?”
“I don’t think “outlandish” is a word, Rich.”
“It is now. Come on, tell me.”
“Oh, she’s from.. Estonia.. or something. I can’t remember clearly.”
Rich knew she was lying again, because Daphne practically never forgot something, especially things she wasn’t supposed to know she remembered. He shook his head. “Alright. I’ll go out with her.”
Daphne’s grin was absolutely devilish.
“Hey, watch it!” a skater whirred past her, putting Tam out of balance. She tripped over an ankle-high fence and fell into a little pond. Spluttering the dirty water she sat up. She picked a waterlillie from her hair and let out an awful curse.
“Ooh my, you can’t say THAT, girl. You don’t know what that means. At least I hope so.” Tamara looked right into the eyes of the skater. It was a woman. “I’m sorry,”she said. She put out her hand and Tamara took it. She pretended to come up, then gave a huge jerk and pulled the woman into the water. “Now we’re even” Tam told the woman calmly.
The skater stared at her open-mouthed, then started to laugh. “I deserved that, I guess. I’m Lauren, but you can call me Loz.”
“I’m Tamara. And Tamara will do fine.”
Lauren laughed again.
“What are you doing in there? It is forbidden to be outside the paths” a grim voice told them. Tamara looked up at a tall shadowy figure. A park attendant. “Ooh this is just fucking great.”she muttered. “Fucking great.”