I shrugged. “I don’t know.”
Brandon looked scared. “He’s gotten caught. He’ll probably have to go to prison. Probably we all will.”
“We’re not going to prison.”
“I don’t think I’ll do too well in prison.”
“We’re not going to prison.” I said it with confidence, but I really wasn’t sure. I hoped we weren’t going to prison.
“We should go.” Brandon climbed on his bike.
“We can’t leave Joey here. Never leave a man behind.” I’d heard that in a movie.
“Joey’s still a boy. I say we leave. It’s not like we can help him. If he’s caught, they’ll call the police, and what can we do? If he’s not caught, who knows how long he’ll be hiding before he gets back here? He wouldn’t want us all to get grounded.”
Brandon’s arguments sounded logical, but something about it didn’t feel quite right. As we rode away, I wondered if I’d ever find the alligators – and if I’d ever see Joey again.
THE END
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About the author:
*~* I was pretty sure I wanted to be a writer in the fifth grade. (or a cowboy...or a soldier...or...)
*~* In the twelfth grade I wrote a 5-page paper entitled, "When I grow up I want to be a _____." (I found out not many people want to be a line when they grow up.)
*~* I got a 100 on the paper, and decided I wanted to be a writer more than a line, but I waited 25 years before I started working on it. ("Better late than never," they always say - whoever they are.)
*~* Oreos dunked in milk may be what the Bible calls manna from heaven. (I could be wrong on that.)
*~* My wife is super-cool and I've decided to keep her around. My two boys are super-cool too, but one joined the Army and one went to college, so I guess I won't keep them around.
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