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is sick, really sick!’
Darby was staring at the photo as if hypnotized. ‘Yeah,’
he said softly.
‘Do you recognize it? Any idea when and where it was
5 taken?’
‘Sure, don’t you know?’ Darby said in a flat tone. ‘It
was last week. When you told me about acing the Spanish
test.’
‘Right! Yeah. I felt so happy about it that I put my arms

10 around you. In fun.’
‘I know. It was spontaneous. We were just happy, that’s
all.’
‘A beautiful moment. But then some cyber dirt bag
came along and saw us.’
15 Darby let out a bitter laugh. ‘They didn’t just come
along, believe me. They had been waiting for a scene like
that.’
‘You think they’d been watching us all the time?’
‘Watching and waiting for the right moment. It was easy,
20 wasn’t it? The corridors are almost always crowded. They
stop a second, whip out their cell phone and CLICK!’
‘Unfortunately, there was no CLICK. If there had been
we might have seen who did it,’ Neil said.
‘They operate in the dark. Like phantoms.’
25 ‘Like cowards you mean!’
Darby nodded. ‘Yeah, like cowards. They’re nothing
but dirty cowards!’
‘The question is, what are we going to do about it?’
Darby thought for a moment. ‘There are two things we
30 can do,’ he said. ‘We can try to get that website removed

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