Episode 10

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The miracle was no taller than a midget, with blond hair, brown skin and blue eyes. Or were they black? Can’t really remember… but it didn’t look like nothing I had ever seen. Like for real. Cody was so excited about it that he sounded high. As usual.

‘That’s him! HIM! The zombie baby! Ohhhh, finally!’

He started running after the little one, and the baby or so-called baby never ever casted a look behind him. But he started running too for sure. And in five seconds the miracle was gone. Disappeared! AGAIN.

‘Now I really need an icecream’ I said. ‘Why would you run after him like a freakin’ idiot? Dude, you totally scared the heck out of him!’

Cody wouldn’t bother to answer. He did not even react. He was actually still staring at where the baby vanished, as if some badass magician would make him get out of his hat in front of us.

‘I said, why would you do that?!’

‘He did not look like no zombie’ muttered Cody. ‘He is just a freakin’ baby. And so crazy-motherfuckka-cute.’

He turned towards me.

‘We need to rescue him, Jack. And the rest of the kiddos, too.’

‘Wait, ain’t him supposed to be older than three now? I mean, it’s not like it’s been twelve years since they disappeared…’

We froze for a while. The baby of the pictures would have to be older than us by now. Way older than the little one we just saw. The miracle was a fake one. Damn.

Episode 9

flèche‘Be there in an hour!’ Mom said.

She dropped us at the entrance of the park and left to find a spot. It was kinda weird to think that we were by ourselves in a place where some other kids had disappeared. But it was okay, because a lot of people were there around us, too.

Nothing extraordinary in the park. Like really. There was nothing more to see than random bushes and grass that had been beaten up by summer and stupid little ones that were chasing others on playgrounds. Excited yet, friends?

A super duper beautiful young woman was sitting on a wooden bench. While Jack was looking everywhere like he would find under a piece of burned grass the dirty perv that had taken away the kids, I started to move towards the bench… Slow-motion style. She had long black hair and a dress that screamed ‘MAGIC!’ She smiled at me, and I felt like I was going to either laugh uncontrollably or fall down on my knees.

You guessed it. I had just sat down next to her and prepared myself to speak when Jack came back. Sigh.

‘Look, ice creams!’

YES. I forgot about the bench, the girl, the stupid kids and the stupid park right away. I mean, ICE CREAMS!

We tried to look like we didn’t care, but the guy behind his vending cart had noticed that we were interested.

‘Want a good icecream?’ he said with the perfect perv smile.

We frowned. Maybe it was HIM. He had done harm to the lost kiddos! We looked back at him with our special  ‘evil glance’. He seemed pretty upset by our reaction, for all of a sudden he shouted.

‘You won’t get any ice cream from me, you bunch of nuts! YA HEAR ME?’

What a terrible person.

We went on, feeling sad about our lost ice cream. We had been wandering around for about ten minutes when we saw a miracle. Like for real.

‘THERE! THERE!’

Episode 9

flècheOn a été déposés par Maman à l’entrée du parc. Elle nous a donné rendez-vous une heure plus tard, avant de partir se garer. Ҫa faisait un peu bizarre de se dire que Jack et moi, on était à l’endroit où d’autres enfants avaient disparu… Mais bon, y avait pas mal de monde autour de nous.

Le parc ressemblait à rien. Enfin, je veux dire, c’était juste un parc, quoi. Avec des buissons partout, des pelouses cramées à cause de l’été, des gamins en transe devant les aires de jeux et quelques cactus de temps en temps parce que bon, fallait quand même faire style qu’on était bien en Arizona, hein ?

Jack était tellement occupé à inspecter l’horizon façon Sherlock Holmes qu’il n’avançait plus. J’ai décidé de faire une petite pause sur un banc en attendant. Méga bonus, y avait une dame trop canon dessus qui m’a décoché un sourire. Elle avait de longs cheveux noirs et une robe à tomber par terre. Heureusement, j’étais bien assis.

Au moment où j’allais commencer à lui parler, Jack est venu me récupérer. C’est toujours comme ça. Tellement cool d’avoir un jumeau…

-Regarde, un marchand de glaces !

Je lui ai pardonné tout de suite. On s’est dirigés vers le stand en essayant de ne pas avoir l’air trop enthousiaste. Le type derrière son comptoir nous a captés quand même.

-Vous voulez une bonne glace ?

Ҫa, c’était de la réplique de pédophile de film. Avec Jack, on a crispé direct. Ҫa se trouve, c’était lui qui avait fait du mal aux disparus ! On a regardé le type d’un sale œil. Ҫa l’a un peu vexé, je crois, parce qu’il nous a fait une grimace de feu d’artifice (me demandez pas ce que c’est) avant de hurler :

-Ce sera plus cher pour vous !

Cause toujours, tête d’œuf en salopette.

Du coup, on s’est mis à vadrouiller dans une allée à côté un peu au hasard en essayant de pas trop penser à notre glace perdue.

Et là, devant nous… le MIRACLE !