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    “Voila.”
Eddie smiled and flourished a hand toward the door. “One unlocked car, as you
wished.”
    “That’s
awesome! Besides my brother, I’ve never met anyone else with powers like that.”
He touched a hand reverently to the car door and then lifted the handle. “I
could have done that. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it.” He gave Eddie a
sly grin. “Of course… I didn’t break into the car— you did. You
know what that means, don’t you?”
    “Um…it
means now the car’s open and you should hurry up and grab your bag, before
anyone sees us.”
    “Well,
yeah. But it also means that now you’re part of this crazy escapade, too.
There’s no turning back.”
    “Right…Why
don’t you grab your bag so we can discuss this somewhere else? We should get
out of here before Kirby discovers that you’re missing.”
    Eddie
drove in focused silence until they had left the fairgrounds a few miles
behind. Then he glanced at Tyler. “Grab my phone and see if you can make us a
flight reservation.” He handed over his wallet. “Here ya go. You can use my
credit card.”
    “Does
that mean you’re in? Where are we going?”
    Eddie
kept his gaze straight ahead on the road when he spoke, “We’re going to
Seattle. Crazy as this whole thing is, it looks like I’m in. Like you said,
there’s no turning back now.”

CHAPTER 5: LILIANA
     
     
    Liliana
watched the sparrows flutter about on the power line outside the glass balcony door
of her grandfather’s third-floor apartment, in Chinatown. From the table, she
could clearly see the apartment building across the alley. On one of the
apartment’s balconies, an elderly woman fed her two cats.
    Her
parents, both dentists, had gone to China for a month, on a goodwill mission to
bring dental care to needy children. Her grandmother, who hadn’t returned to
China for thirty years, had eagerly gone with them. Liliana had begged her
parents for the chance to go along, but they insisted that it was more
important for her to stay in school. So, it had been arranged that she stay
with her grandfather, until their return.
    She
glanced at the clock. It was early still, and she had half an hour before she
would need to walk to the corner bus stop. Had she been home, she would have
walked to Aimee’s and her mom would have driven them to school. Her
grandfather’s apartment, however, was miles away, in the opposite direction,
near Elliott Bay. The city bus was, unfortunately, her only option.
    When the
phone rang, Liliana reached over to the old wall phone, which thankfully had a
cord long enough to reach the table. She smiled when she heard Aimee’s voice on
the other end.
    “Hey,
Liliana! So I just talked to my mom, and she said that you can stay with us
while your parents are gone. What do ya think?”
    “Um…I
don’t know.” She swirled her cup of hot tea. “I’d feel bad leaving Grandfather
here all by himself, you know? If Grandmother were here, I wouldn’t feel so
guilty, but she went to China with my parents. He doesn’t speak any English,
and if he needed help or something, I don’t know what he’d do.”
    “Liliana,
he lives in Chinatown . I’m sure he’ll manage, just fine. It’s not like
there’s no one around for him to talk to.”
    “I
know…You’re right. I just feel guilty leaving him alone.”
    “Well,
don’t. If he and your grandma are anything like my grandparents, I’m sure that
he would welcome the opportunity to be alone and have a little bit of freedom
for a while.
    “And
besides,” Aimee went on, “you don’t really like riding the city bus to school
every day, do you?”
    “Definitely
not!” Liliana agreed. “The bus is one downside to staying here.”
    “Will
you at least think about it?”
    “I
will.”
    “Promise?”
    “I
promise.” She looked out the window again and spotted the two cats on the
neighbor’s balcony. A fat, black cat sat next to its food bowl and delicately
licked a paw. The