Chapter 33 - Apple Grove

“I’ma go for a walk, boqay?” Conrad asked Freckles, who was on the couch, plotting murder.
“Whateva,” Freckles said.
Conrad crawled up the tunnel, sipping tea.
As he walked, he decided to find a path he had never seen before and follow it to wherever it would lead.
He found a street he had never noticed before, named ‘Apple Grove’.
“Well boqay,” he said, and walked down it.
The street led down to a cul-de-sac at the end. There were 3 houses, the one in the middle Vicky’s face red that said ‘The Apple Residence’ on its decorative mailbox.
“Cool! Vicky!” Conrad said.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Vicky and a younger girl who was taller than her came into sight walking down the street.
“Oh hay Vick,” Conrad said.
Vicky either didn’t hear him, or just pretended not to notice, because she just kept walking and talking to the other girl (who is Sonya if any of u poops didn’t figure that out).
“… yes! It’s somewhere in Supul Academy!” Conrad heard Vicky exclaim to Sonya excitedly.
“Yoh jokin’!” Sonya gasped.
“Nope. This Multiplex kid owns it. He told me he likes to keep it somewhere in the basements at night. If I can find the Orb, then Clov - “
Conrad couldn’t hear whatever Vicky was going to say, because the two had entered their house and shut the door behind them.
Conrad took a deep breath.
He had a choice to make.
“One, I can become a temp. stalker for 5 minutes and learn what they are talking bout. Two, I can leave right now and forever be haunted by the overwhelming curiosity of what the two are discussing.”
He bit his lip.
Putting his china tea cup into their mail box for safe-keeping, he rushed behind their house.