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whatever, he thought he could hear the ups truck.
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out here?
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raymond got out of his truck and wandered into the woods, not really
sure what he was looking for.  delivery instructions were vague on
this point.  the message had simply said to find him in the trees.
well, here he was, in the trees.
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and here was a house.  not on any road, not anywhere near a road.
place looked abandoned.  raymond was about to set down the package
when he noticed a man with long scraggily hair and sports glasses
standing outside the house.  this could not be the package's recipient
because vidya was a teenage boy, who he knew quite well.
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the detective noticed him, noticing him.
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raymond averted his eyes and pretended to be looking at his clipboard.
who was this guy and where was vidya?
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inside the abandoned structure, vidya was sure he had heard the ups
truck.  he crawled out of the panty and, on his belly, over to the
boarded\-up window.  he could definitely hear two voices, two men
talking.
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"special delivery," raymond said.
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after some further discussion raymond turned over the package and the
detective signed for it.  raymond shrugged, not sure if there was
anything else he should say or do, and walked back to his truck.  he'd
tally this in the measuring system and then get on with his other
deliveries.  but something wasn't right.  the address had been
ambiguous, and that man definitely wasn't vidya.  had he delivered the
package to the wrong person?  raymond didn't like this at all.  he
locked the truck and turned around, headed back into the woods.  to
the house, to make sure vidya was all right.  it would mean another
manual tally in the measuring system, but his manager was just going
to have to understand: a boy was in trouble.