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Green socks. Green socks? It was some kind of code. She was trying to tell him something. She wanted to defect. She and agent XZ1000, who was posing as her father, were plotting to overthrow the government and…
    “BOO!” said Angeline.
    Gary stumbled down the stairs. “Have a nice trip, see you next fall,” he said.
    Angeline laughed.
    “I never even heard you coming,” said Gary. “You’re as quiet as a cat.”
    “As a fish,” said Angeline. “Do you want to come in and see where I live?” She unlocked the front door of the apartment building and they waited by the elevator.
    “You have an elevator,” said Gary.
    “We have to,” said Angeline. “We live on the fourth floor.”
    “We live in a house, so we don’t have an elevator,” said Gary.
    “Do you have a backyard?” Angeline asked.
    “Yes.”
    “Well, then, you don’t need an elevator if you have a backyard. You can have a dog.”
    “We don’t have a dog or an elevator,” said Gary.
    They rode the elevator up to the fourth floor. Angeline unlocked the door to her apartment and they walked inside. “Would you like some salt water?” she offered.
    Gary looked around the apartment. He was thrilled to be there, just as he was thrilled the time he got to go to Mr. Bone’s car. “Do you have any fresh water?” he asked.
    “Yes, we have that too,” said Angeline.
    “I’ll have fresh water,” said Gary. “My father said if you drink salt water you’ll go crazy. He said he read a book where a guy on a lifeboat drank salt water, then jumped in the ocean and was eaten by sharks.”
    “How could that be?” Angeline asked. “You don’t go crazy from drinking water and you don’t go crazy from eating salt, so why would you go crazy from drinking salt water?”
    Gary shrugged.
    “Besides,” added Angeline, “fish aren’t crazy and that’s all they ever drink.”
    “I didn’t know fish drank,” said Gary.
    Angeline went into the kitchen and made them each a glass of water, no salt in Gary’s.
    “Where’s your room?” he asked when she returned.
    “This is it,” said Angeline proudly. “This is where I sleep.”
    “On the couch?”
    “It folds out into a bed,” said Angeline. “When I’m asleep it’s my bedroom and when I’m awake it’s the living room.”
    “I just have a regular bedroom,” said Gary. “I wonder if my parents would let me sleep on the couch.”
    They sat on the floor and drank their water. Gary had a wonderful time seeing Angeline again. He was a little afraid to ask her where she’d been when she hadn’t been in school. He didn’t want tospoil their good time, but he finally asked her.
    She told him about Mrs. Hardlick’s note, and all about the aquarium, the four-eyed butterfly fish and the glass catfish, which you could see right through except for the bones.
    “Aren’t you ever coming back to school?” Gary asked.
    “I can’t,” said Angeline. “I tore up Mrs. Hardlick’s note and stuffed it under a bus seat. She told me I couldn’t come back to class until I bring the note back, signed by my father. Since I don’t have the note, I can’t ever go back.”
    “I wish Mr. Bone would write me a note like that,” said Gary. “Then I could stuff it under a bus seat and I wouldn’t have to go to school.”
    “Mr. Bone would never write a note like that,” said Angeline.
    “No, I guess not.”
    “Besides, if I had Mr. Bone for a teacher, I’d like school.”
    “I guess,” said Gary. “But it was a lot better when you were there too.”
    “I just don’t fit in at school,” said Angeline, “not like at the aquarium. At school, everyone calls me a freak.”
    “They call me a goon,” said Gary.
    “You call yourself that,” said Angeline.
    “I guess I’ll always be a goon,” said Gary, “but someday everybody will be sorry they ever called you a freak. You’ll be somebody really great.”
    “You never know.”

Fourteen
Mr. Bone Is on the Phone
    Angeline watched the