Chapter Nine: We Share Post-Seasons Greetings.

[olympicswimmer]

[ With Christmas holidays over, the "basketball team"-slash-teenage resistance crew has an "after school practice" behind closed doors in the gym.I know some of you probably got a "what I did over Christmas break" as an essay in English, but I want to hear the real deal. Who got hurt, who got droned, who's got something extra to fight with, and who

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[pants_yourmove]

[[Someone reluctantly comes to the meeting. Kinda hanging back and looking around as if expecting something bad.

Hesitantly he asks.]]

"Did anyone get a letter, supposedly from me over the holiday?"

[olympicswimmer]

Not me.

[pants_yourmove]

"Oh, that's good. I get to explain first.

The town is trying to turn everyone against me, they took my letter to Santa and changed it."

[olympicswimmer]

Yeah? How?

[pants_yourmove]

"They made it sound like I wanted everyone trapped and I wanted to work with Grady and the Mayor.

Except its in my hand writing and signed by me. I've kinda been hiding since I saw it and a friend told me everyone got one."

[olympicswimmer]

Hiding's not gonna fix that.

[pants_yourmove]

"Being out in the open if people think I am the enemy won't either..."

[olympicswimmer]

I know you don't want to leave, but I'm not big on people getting picked on. You let me know who gives you trouble.

[pants_yourmove]

"Thanks.

It's not that I don't want to leave so much as I don't want to go back where I came from."

[olympicswimmer]

Yeah? Where you wanna go?

[pants_yourmove]

"Anywhere else. Actually, I already got an offer from someone.

Of course first we have to find a way out."

[olympicswimmer]

So you're on our side.

[pants_yourmove]

"I'm here aren't I?"

[olympicswimmer]

You could be spying.

[pants_yourmove]

"That's true.

I guess that's what those letters want people to think about me."

[olympicswimmer]

So stop moping and tell people what you told me. You have a phone, right?