but I couldn’t stop the tears from coming. The guys were really nice to me, though. They patted me on the back.
“You’re okay, dude. It’s okay,” they said. “You’re one brave little dude, you know that?” said Amos, putting his arm around my shoulders.
And when I kept on crying, he put both his arms around me like my dad would have done and let me cry.
The Emperor’s Guard
We backtracked through the grass for a good ten minutes to see if we could find my hearing aids, but it was way too dark to see anything.
We literally had to hold on to each other’s shirts and walk in single file so we wouldn’t trip over one another.
It was like black ink had been poured all around. “This is hopeless,” said Henry. “They could be anywhere.”
“Maybe we can come back with a flashlight,” answered Amos. “No, it’s okay,” I said. “Let’s just go back. Thanks, though.”
We walked back toward the cornfields, and then cut through them until the back of the giant screen came into view.
Since it was facing away from us, we didn’t get any light from the screen at all until we’d walked around to the edge of the woods again.
That’s where we finally started seeing a little light. There was no sign of the seventh graders anywhere.
“Where do you think they went?” said Jack. “Back to the food trucks,” said Amos. “They’re probably thinking we’re going to report them.”
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