Queenie's Day: A Narrative Fiction

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I walked out of the store into the bright sun, my eyes taking a few moments to adjust to the light. There they were, getting into a beaten up Cadillac. I ran towards them like a dog barking at a car in a driveway, yelling at them to stop.

Queenie glanced menacingly at me and asked, "What do you want?"

"I just wanted to apologize for what my, well, ex-boss said," I replied, trying to muster up a sympathetical face.

"Oh really now," she responded sarcastically. "You didn't just come out here to embarrass us more now did you?"

"No ma'am," I replied as respectfully as I could, "I just wanted to apologize."

"Well thank you," she answered, then glanced at the other girls, "We'd better get going."

"No, wait!" I responded quickly, "I was also
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"So, where are we going?" I inquired, wanting to know what we were going to be doing.

"Someplace special," she answered, a mischievous look on her face.

We left town, and Queenie drove us silently for about 10 minutes until we reached Dillon Cove, a decrepit part of Massachusetts where an amusement park used to lie, but had closed down. The only kind of people who stayed here were the rough kind, so I began to get worried.

All of the sudden, Queenie put on the breaks, and exclaimed "I think I hit something," even though I had heard nothing, "Can you go see if I hit anything guy?"

"My name is Sammy by the way," I replied, and opened the door to see if we had hit something, no matter how doubtful I was.

After further inspection and finding that, indeed, there was nothing to be found, I tried to open the door to my seat again, but to no avail. I knocked on the glass and asked Bertha, "Can you unlock the door?"

Big Tall rolled down her window, and Queenie yelled at me, "You didn't quit for us, you just wanted to hang out with us!" And put the car in reverse, nearly driving over my foot, and I watched, my mouth agape, as, unbelievably, the girls sped away to leave me here with no way to get home but to walk, and so I

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