Kylie the Magnificent by Marty Chan
Author:Marty Chan [Chan, Marty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459828094
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2021-06-02T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Seven
As the seniors headed out of the dining hall, a few stopped to talk to me. Mags led the charge. She got so close I could smell what she had eaten for lunch. Tuna salad. Definitely tuna.
âYoung lady, I wanted to tell you that I laughed so hard I might have peed a little,â she said.
âWell, thatâs the first time someoneâs done that during my show,â I said. âNow youâre sure you still have your watch?â
She checked her wrist and laughed. âOf all the acts your mother has brought in, youâre my favorite.â
âReally?â I said. âThatâs great. Thank you.â
âMy husband wanted to be a magician when he was younger, but he never got around to it. He bought all sorts of magic books. Theyâre in storage. I can get my daughter to pull them out and give them to you if youâre interested.â
âThatâs so kind,â I said.
âIâll get them to your mom,â Mags said. âKeep it up. Youâre great.â
The other residents nodded. Mags joined them and walked away. I hopped onstage to help Min get out of the handcuffs. He had the key in his hand, but he couldnât quite fit it into the lock. I grabbed the key from him and opened the cuffs.
âI donât understand what went wrong,â he said.
âItâs okay,â I said. âIt can happen to the best of us.â
He tested the handcuffs, snapping them shut. âNot to me. I worked on the escape for months. I can get out of the cuffs in my sleep.â
âIâll bet it was the same problem I had,â I said. âPut them on me.â
âWhy?â
âIâll show you,â I said.
He slapped the cuffs on my wrists. I squirmed and twisted, trying to hit the secret latch, but nothing happened when I flicked it.
âSee?â I said. âThey wonât open.â
The cuffs remained firmly around my wrists.
âIt canât be broken,â he said. âTry the latch again.â
I flicked again. Nothing.
Min tried thumbing the latch. Again. And again. And again. By his tenth try, the cuffs finally opened.
âSee?â I said. âThe latch only works some of the timeâitâs totally random. Thatâs why I couldnât get out of them the first time.â
âIâm sorry, Kylie,â Min said. âI thought you had messed up, but it was my handcuffs that were broken. I didnât mean to blame you.â
âDoesnât matter, Min,â I said.
âThis is my fault. I should have tested the handcuffs before the show. I ruined everything.â
âNo,â I said. âIf it werenât for the broken cuffs, we wouldnât have found a new way to do the act.â
âI knew that we werenât ready to go on. If weâd had another week to work on everything, I would have found out the latch was broken. Then we wouldnât have looked like idiots onstage.â
âYouâre too hard on yourself,â I said. âDonât you remember what Peter talked about at the magic club? You have to prepare outs in case things go wrong. And I came up with a new ending. And the seniors loved it. Didnât you hear them?â
âI was in the mailbag,â he said.
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