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Cool." Yep. Twenty seconds, and we were done. "Sorry," I said. "Ditto," said Beck. "Is anybody going to apologize to me?" Storm trudged into the hallway from the cabin she shares with Beck. "I was trying to sleep." "I thought you were making a list of our food supplies," said Beck. "It took about two seconds because we have about nada. I decided to take a nap instead. And now thanks to you two, I'm awake. What're you two doing?" "We need to get into The Room," I said. "Why?" "To find Dad's treasure map for the Caymans dive." Storm made a fish-lips face and thought about that for a couple of seconds. "Good idea." Then, yawning and scratching her butt, she turned around and shuffled back into her cabin. "Okay," I said to Beck, "if you were book-quoteAnyway, once I mentioned my Dad-sneaked-in-through-a-secret-trapdoor-in-the-deck idea, Beck got a look in her eyes, and I knew: It was time for Twin Tirade No. 426. "Give it up, Bickford. Dad is dead!" "No, he's not, Rebecca. He's in The Room." "No. Way." "It's possible." "Yeah. Just like you facing reality someday. It's possible." "I'll bet he's in there, right now, lying on the floor." "He's dead, Bick." "No, he'll just look that way." "Because he is!" "He's probably thirsty and hungry, too." "No, he's not." "Of course he is! We should make him a sandwich. Maybe bring him a sports drink." "He's not hungry or thirsty, Bickford, because he's dead. It's one of the few advantages of dying: You don't have to eat or drink or do the dishes." "Rebecca, how can you be so cold and heartless?" "How can you be so sentimental?" "Easy. I have a heart." "Too bad it's not pumping blood to your brain, dum-dum." "Sorry, Mrs. Spock. We can't all be superlogical like you." "I'd settle for semilogical." "Really?" "Yeah." "Oh. Okay. book-quoteCHAPTER 5 "You're kidding, right?" This was not the reaction I'd been looking for. "This isn't a joke, Beck," I said as we made our way belowdecks and headed toward the bow. The Room was in the forward-most section of the hull. We stood in front of The Door staring at The Lock. "Maybe Dad went in there during the storm, maybe to secure some extremely important documents or seal a treasure map inside a watertight container, when, all of a sudden, a wave slammed into the side of the boat, knocked something off a shelf, and-BAM!-he got conked on the head, and he's been knocked out ever since." Beck just looked at me. "Seriously?" "It's possible." "Then why didn't we see him, Bick? Hello? We were standing right here in the hallway, remember? If not, allow me to refresh your memory." She made a bunch of splash-splash-gurgle-gurgle noises. "We were up to our necks in water, and I don't remember seeing Dad swim past us so he could sneak into The Room." "You weren't there the whole time. Maybe he used one of the secret hatches up on deck." Oh, in case I forgot to mention book-quote
