Stumbling about, I hurried to the other side of the street near the new motel. After the encounter with Beatrice and the gangsters, it was best to change residences.
Although the streets were busy, as always, there was just that gut feeling something didn’t belong, especially after my encounter with the stranger who had reluctantly saved my life. Two people had saved my life, and this was something I wasn’t used to. For the first time, I didn’t know what to do with myself and felt like a kid in a world I thought I knew. And I actually missed the Academy.
My head spun around when I ran into a kid on the corner.
“Chicle,” (gum) the kid said in Spanish and lifted a box of gum to my face.
“No chicle,” I replied in Spanish, waving him away. However, I bought a box just to get that kid on hi
