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They hopped onto the bikes, and Donut got into Alicia's handlebasket. They biked down the street as fast as they could.

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"Let's go!" They started running when Jeremy stopped and said, "Let's take bikes! I have two in my house." "Why do you have two bikes in your house?" Alicia asked. "Oh, I just found two free bikes and I liked them."

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"THE MAN, the man, he is that guy on the small billboard right outside of town! Good job Donut, here's a a treat." said Alicia.

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Alicia thought for a moment. Donut started jumping up and down, yelling, "Poof! Moof DOOF! Pooooof! Oof!

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"Hmm...He talked to me for a while but his face was kind of hidden underneath his coat collar... All I saw was that he had a black beard and black hair. " Jeremy said.

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"Did you see the man in blue before he killed you?" Jeremy questioned. Alicia looked down. "Yes," she said. "But he didn't really talk to me, he just stabbed me right away."

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"Well..." Alicia hesitated. "We need to know more about the blue man and the mean lady. Do you think they're working together?" "The man talked to me before he killed me," Jeremy said. "He said that our family and his family are enemies." Alicia scratched her head. "Do you think the mean lady is... related to him?"

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"So...What do we do first?" asked the mom. "Oh, no," said Alicia, "You and Dad are not doing anything. You are staying in the house and resting." Jeremy and Alicia pushed their parents into Jeremy's house, insisting that hey get some sleep while the Mom and Dad argued that they were not tired at all. After a while, Alicia and Jeremy won and after putting their parents in two comfy armchairs and making tea for them, they went out onto the street. Jeremy asked, "So...What do we do first?"

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"Good idea Waffles!" Says the Dad, "SHLOOF POOF!" Says DONUT.

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"Oh! Donut is right!" Alicia says. "The knife! We have to find it before anyone else gets kidnapped!!!"

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The lady screams, but they got out. Suddenly, Donut starts to jump and yell "POOF DOOF PLOOF LOOF MOOF GOOF HOOF DOOF POOF POOF WOOF!!!!!"

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The lady points to the door on the other side of the room not noticing what she just did. Then the whole family runs to the door and they try to open it but they cant, luckily Jeremy had a match in his pocket because it was Berts birthday yesterday. Jeremy pops the lock and they get sent free.

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"Where is the door?" Alicia asks.

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She grabs the money with her free hand and yells, "You should have sworn on the River Styx or something! I've got money, and I'm leaving!" She laughs wickedly and starts toward the wall, hopping since her feet are tied together, and then she crashes into it.

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He gives the lady his only 20 dollar bill, almost as if it were his child.

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The dad looks disgusted, but nods.

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Then Donut stops when the lady says, "Ok, we can make a deal, give me 20 bucks and I will let you go."

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And Donut, sadly, does.

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Then Jeremy tells the dog to attack her...

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The mean lady screams,"YOU CAN'T KILL ME! I'D LIKE TO SEE YA TRYYYYY!!! HAHAHAHAAAAA!" She starts laughing maniacally.

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Then the dad says "Oh I know, we can just let the other lady die!"

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"Maybe we can make some sort of agreement," the mom said thoughtfully.

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"OR SOMETHING, I DONT HAVE A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD YA KNOW!"

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Jeremy glares at her. "Well then, give us more riddles or something."

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"YOU CANT!!!!" The mean lady yells. "Only three of you can go because Jeremy only answered enough for three of you!!!!!!!"

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Alicia says,"Okay, now how do we leave? 'Cause we're still dead."

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Then the mean "Riddle Lady" Yells "LET ME OUT!"

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Alicia looks appalled and snaps,"Boof boof snoof POOF! POOFY DOOFY FLOOF!!!"

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"Sloof poof" Donut says

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Jeremy informs her that she just called Donut a "Dorky Nerd."

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Alicia holds Donut at arm's length and says,"Poof?" "Boof moof yoof doof." "Soof?" "Loof doof woof toof."

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"Shoof swoof moof loof"

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"OH MY GOD MY DOG CAN TALK"

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"WOOF WOOF YOOF"

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Suddenly, Alicia says, "Donut, if you understand me say 'Woof Woof Yoof' "

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"Yoof." the corgi says.

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"WAIT..." Alicia says, "Donut, can you talk?"

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Jeremy ties the lady up with his ropes while Alicia unties their parents.

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Alicia runs over to Jeremy and unties him. He is speechless. He thinks, my sister is so cool.

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"OOF" says the Corgi

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Alicia punches the lady again, and she falls over.

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"You forgot dogs can chew ropes!!!!" Alicia says showing her little white corgi.

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"How did you get out?!?!" The lady screeches.

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"MARCHEWAWAAAA!!!!!" Suddenly, Alica jumps from her chair and punches the lady in the face.

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The lady says disgusted. "Excuse me, thats incorrect, 10 seconds to go."

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"Bruh I have no idea." Jeremy says

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The woman looked at Jeremy hard. She said,"That is....

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"A LAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Jeremy thought hard. "um.......... uh........... er........"

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"I can be flipped and broken but I never move. I can be closed, and opened, and sometimes removed. I am sealed by hands. What am I?" The angry lady says.

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"The 3rd riddle is..." the woman consults her phone. "okay, this one is long, listen closwly."

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Then "The Final Countdown" plays on speakers he never knew they had.

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"Now for the third one," she says

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"Yes!" the woman says.

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"Art!!!" Yells Jeremy.

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"Well...." "That's technically right."

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"Me, of course!" Jeremy laughs.

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Jeremy panics and looks at Alicia, who is miming... drawing???

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Jeremy thinks...The lady looks at the watch. "You have 2 more minutes and 30 seconds.."

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"The one I just said. Without me, the Earth would be 'eh.' What am I? And the clock is still ticking you know!!"

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"What riddle?" Jeremy asks.

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"NO! NYET! NON! NEE! NEIN! LA! Answer the riddle OR I'LL GET ANGRY!!!!!!"

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Then Jeremy says "Can you please answer Alicias question?" He asks with a little smirk.

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She says,"Without me, the earth would just be 'eh'. What am I?" Pause. "AND ONLY JEREMY IS ALLOWED TO TALK!!!"

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The woman screams "ONE MORE WORD AND YOU'RE NOT LEAVING!!!!!" Everyone got very still.

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The rest of the family laughs, and yells "ANSWER!!"

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The woman freezes. "I thought I said you weren't allowed to talk!" she snaps. She doesn't answer the question.

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And then Alicia says the weirdest thing "Do you get paid to hold people hostage?"

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...Well...All right, yes. That's the answer," she said grumpily. "Now the second one. You have 3 more minutes and 55 seconds."

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"Queue!" The woman says...

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"Two, okay..." Jeremy said. "I have one more thing to say, if you can finish three riddles in under five minutes each you and your family can ALL go home." The lady said that as if she was upset. Jeremy was confused, so he thought, and thought, now he thinks he might have the answer but he hesitates, but decides to take a chance and spits it out...

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"Uh... how many chances do I get?" Jeremy asked. The woman looked at him and said,"Well, this one is extra hard, so you get two."

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Jeremy thought really hard. He HAD to answer the riddle. But this wasn't good. He had nine more riddles to go.

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"What 5-letter word in the english language sounds the same after you take away all but one of its letters?"

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"You are free." Jeremy couldn't believe his luck. "BUT!", she said as Jeremy's heart sank, "I forgot to tell you this: If you want to release some dead with you, you may only take three." Jeremy was relieved, he had exactly three people to release. He had been so scared when she said 'BUT!'. He was glad it wasn't something worse. "BUT! You have to answer three more riddles for each of them." NO! Jeremy thought... His heart sank again. "How much people do you wish to deliver?" she asked. "Three." said Jeremy sadly. "Okay. Here are the riddles..."

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The first riddle was the easiest, "What word starts with E and ends with E but only has one letter in it?" Jeremy had always been very fond of riddles and knew this one right away. "An envelope." He said only having enough breath to barely finish the word. The girl seemed surprised and answered "Correct?" Almost like a question, then she said the next one, " A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter, and twelve remains. What am I?." This took him a while to answer but he remembered Bert stumping him with this one. "Dozens" he answered feeling more confident this time. "Correct" the young lady said. " The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?" She shoots this one out fast almost as fast as the knife that struck him before. He thinks for a while, 10 minutes go by, 20, 25, "fingerprints!!!" He yells as loud as he can. "Correct!!!" The young lady said...

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Suddenly, a young lady appears out of nowhere. She was very beautiful. She spoke, "So, you came too. I'll explain. You were 'killed' by an enchanted knife. The knife brings you here and you have to answer three riddles. If you answer them correctly, you may come back to life and bring any dead people with you." Jeremy was shocked. But the girl continued. "Your family, and yes Alicia is your sister, have all failed to answer the riddles. They have to wait until someone  answers the riddles correctly and wishes to bring them back to life with them." Jeremy just stared. This is some kind of nightmare, he thought. But no, it was real. "Are you ready to try and answer the riddles?" The young lady asked. Jeremy, in a terrified voice, said..."Yes."

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Are his parents, he tries to speak but can't, his neck hurts more and more every second. All he gets out was "WHY?" And they all shake they're heads. Alicia is bleeding red, blue, purple, and yellow, and he is bleeding the same colors. He asks himself, "Could the man be right? Is she really my sister?"

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But then Jeremy sees that he is not dead and he wonders why. Then he sees that he is not dead but he is kidnapped. He is in a dark room. And then in the dim light he sees Alicia tied up to a chair and on two other chairs...

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stabs Jeremy in the neck. As life flashes before Jeremy's eyes he realized what a gift life is and that you should never take anything for granted. That he should have spread more positivity and love. He realizes that through all the pain and hurt he has been through, he lived to be 25 years old, he lived through it until now. He was important, we all are.  That there are always people that love you. He had a life filled with experiences, and now it's come to an end. This was his story, and one that should be told. He did the best he could to be a good person.

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...You didn't know you were Alicia's brother, did you? Well, she didn't know either. Her parents are actually adoptive parents, she is an orphan." Jeremy's eyes widened. "My family and yours are enemies." He takes a knife from his other pocket, and pushes Jeremy so that he can't get off the chair and says: "I killed Alicia, her parents and you." He raises the knife in the air and...

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grabs a cigar, and then grabs a lighter out of his pocket. And lights his cigar and sits in the chair across from Jeremy. The man says "So...

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The man sits Jeremy on a chair and starts making tea. He gives Jeremy a cup, but then reaches in his pocket and...

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"Are you feeling okay? How about we go inside and I can get you some tea." he says. Then helps Jeremy up off the ground. And leads the way inside Jeremy's house.

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The man walks away and grabs something, puts in in his pocket and tells Jeremy...

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the man's car and he shows pictures of Jeremy's mother and father with... Alicia. Jeremy's heart starts to race. He starts to feel light headed and he falls on the hard cement of the driveway.

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"Come here," the man says. "Follow me." So Jeremy follows the man and they go to...

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"No. I'm not. We were... well... friends." "It says here that you were siblings." the man says and hands Jeremy a document. "That's not true. We couldn't of been... that's crazy." Jeremy says and he starts to wonder whether it could be true, his mother and father left him on the sidewalk when he was two years old. He grew up in foster homes and on the streets. Maybe she was my sister, Jeremy wonders.

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A man dressed in all green. He says "Are you Alicia Roberts' brother?" Jeremy answers...

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Jeremy goes over the facts. He was there, with her the night she was killed, and he has no witness to say that he was at home. That makes him a suspect. A knock on the door interrupts his thoughts, he goes over to the door and sees...

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Jeremy hangs up after a little while, and he decides to try to find the murderer.

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"...Do you know why anyone would kill her?" Jeremy asks. "No. I have no idea. My daughter was a my sunshine. She took care of me while I was sick, she would help me and her mother whenever we needed it." he says crying. Jeremy starts to feel a bit out of place, he only knew her a little bit and now he's talking to her father about her.

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"Do you know anything about who did it?" "..." "Hello?" "I'm not sure... but my wife swore she saw a flash of blue fabric. They left through a window, and a detective is looking for fingerprints." "Okay..."

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"Hello?" the man says. Jeremy starts to be confused "Hi. Is this Alicia's father?" he asks. The man on the other side of the line starts to whimper out of sadness, he finally says "Yes. It is. Who are you?" "I was a friend of Alicia's. I was calling to see if she was... alive." the man starts to full-on cry and says "No. She isn't. She was murdered last night."

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When he wakes up from a bad night of sleep, Jeremy tries calling Alicia again. This time, a man picks up.

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.... Alicia Roberts." As soon as the words come out of the anchor-person's mouth, Jeremy leaps to his feet and grabs his cell phone and calls Alicia, and hopes that she answers and that she isn't... dead. She doesn't pick up. His heart starts to race. He starts to feel bad that he didn't get to know her sooner. After a while of thinking and pondering, he decides to go to bed.

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Jeremy uses the cheese grater to cut some cheese for an evening snack, and then he watches the news. The anchor-person says,"There was a murder, about 10 minutes ago. A small dog was spotted fleeing the scene. The identity of the victim is..."

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Jeremy leaves soon after her. He gets into his automobile (car) and starts to head home. When he gets home there's a package waiting for him on his doorstep. He opens it up and finds a new cheese grater alongside a note
"Dear Jeremy,
If I recall correctly, you needed one of these. You need to get in the hip and stop using a knife to cut your cheese.

Love you always,
Grammy"