Prediction Passage #1
“I saw it first,” Amy said, as she ripped the old leather wallet out of Charlie’s hands. Without saying a word, as if they both understood that this was a secret they didn’t want to share with anyone, they slipped into the alleyway, where no one could see them look inside. “There’s got to be a million dollars here!” Charlie blurted out, when they saw the pile of hundred-dollar bills. Amy, the more realistic of the two, did a quick estimate, thumbing through the wad of cash. “More like thousands,” she said, her voice shaking. They’d found the wallet in a flowerbed on the sidewalk, when Charlie dropped his cell phone while he was trying to talk and eat a slice of pepperoni pizza at the same time. my stuffed the wallet into her backpack and pulled Charlie along by his elbow toward her house. As they rushed toward Viceroy Avenue, they talked about what they could do with the money--download music, get new clothes, travel to the rainforest in Costa Rica, adopt a whale. It looked like all of their dreams could come true. For the last block, they didn’t talk, each figuring that the other one was silently adding to the list of things they could buy.
“I saw it first,” Amy said, as she ripped the old leather wallet out of Charlie’s hands. Without saying a word, as if they both understood that this was a secret they didn’t want to share with anyone, they slipped into the alleyway, where no one could see them look inside. “There’s got to be a million dollars here!” Charlie blurted out, when they saw the pile of hundred-dollar bills. Amy, the more realistic of the two, did a quick estimate, thumbing through the wad of cash. “More like thousands,” she said, her voice shaking. They’d found the wallet in a flowerbed on the sidewalk, when Charlie dropped his cell phone while he was trying to talk and eat a slice of pepperoni pizza at the same time. my stuffed the wallet into her backpack and pulled Charlie along by his elbow toward her house. As they rushed toward Viceroy Avenue, they talked about what they could do with the money--download music, get new clothes, travel to the rainforest in Costa Rica, adopt a whale. It looked like all of their dreams could come true. For the last block, they didn’t talk, each figuring that the other one was silently adding to the list of things they could buy.