Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers

Author:Walter Dean Myers [Myers, Walter Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101657249
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 1988-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

8

good-bye forever: at least

When we got to my house we found Maria sitting on the stoop crying. We asked her what the matter was and she said that Kitty had disappeared, and no one knew where she was.

“Angel and Clyde and Cap are out looking for her now. Here’s the note she left.”

I looked at the note.

CLYDE

I am going away and I will never be back. I can’t stand to live here any more. I might come back when I am grown and married.

Good-bye forever,

Ms KITTY JONES

“That’s just it. Nobody knows why she ran away or anything. Her mother’s not even home and she doesn’t know about it.”

“Did Clyde call the police?”

“He didn’t want to call the police because then everything would be upset. We checked the handwriting on the note and it looks like hers so we don’t think she was kidnaped. Anyway, Clyde don’t think she was kidnaped. They’re going around to all her friends’ places. You know Jeannie, that new girl? You know her BB.”

BB nodded that she did.

“Well, she’s upstairs in case the phone rings and I’m sitting down here in case she comes around.”

“Maybe she’s just fooling around,” Sam said.

“I don’t think so because she don’t be fooling around like that.” Maria wiped at her eyes.

“Did they check over at that girl’s house where she does her homework sometimes?”

“Everywhere. They even checked on 118th Street, and you know that Kitty would never go there by herself,” Maria said. “It’s almost eight thirty and she’s usually home about at least seven. At least if it was real winter she might get cold and come home, but it’s warm.”

You could see that Maria was real sad. I didn’t know what to do. Sam and BB mentioned some more places to look, but Maria said that they had looked in every place Sam and BB mentioned. Then Clyde and Cap came back and said they still couldn’t find Kitty. We just stood around for a while mentioning places where she might have gone but anywhere we mentioned had already been checked out. Angel came by a little later and he said that he hadn’t had any luck either but he had asked his mother to let him and Maria stay out later and help look for Kitty, and their mother said okay.

It was almost nine o’clock so I had to go home. I asked them to call me if they heard anything and they said they would. Clyde was real quiet, not just worried, and I wondered about that.

When I got home I told my mother what had happened to Kitty and she said that Kitty had probably just went off to a movie or something and had forgotten to tell Clyde that she was going. She fixed me a hamburger and I had that and some milk for dinner.

I had to tell my father all over about how I had hurt my foot. He went through this big thing as if he didn’t believe it could really happen the way I said it did.

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