Chapter
14: Too Much Excitement to be Peaceful
But I’m trying to keep the peace, and even though it seems like my turn
in the storytelling has been skipped, I haven’t said anything.
Except I can’t keep it in anymore. This
next part of the story was just too exciting and upsetting, and well... where
do I start?
An hour later we’re walking down Fifth Avenue towards the restaurant and
up ahead we saw Daddy walking with two men; he didn’t look very happy. Then a car door opened up and they pushed him
in and the car sped away, while we were yelling, “Daddy! Daddy!”
Wei-Ling rushed us back to her office, and she quickly called Jimmy Rogers
(the guy Daddy always says is the brains behind the peace operation) on the West
Coast. That evening they were all at our house -- Maya,
Uncle Merle, that lady Jesse, and Jimmy Rogers -- who it turns out is my age!
I guess I left
out a few parts of the story that would shed some light on why everyone was especially
upset. A few weeks before, A
few weeks before, Maria Lopez, the PeaceKids coordinator in Argentina, discovered
that someone had broken into their database. Henry, who's the PeaceKids Network
webmaster, checked the site and found a worm had been implanted on the entire
network of websites, which was monitoring all their visitors. Turns out my BetterWorld
Clubs website, the BetterWorld Movement and ONE DAY IN PEACE websites all had
the same thing happening, too! They also discovered the phones were tapped!
To make things even worse, Daddy and Maya and Uncle Merle began to suspect
that they were being watched whenever they made any appearances at conferences
or meetings.
So, when Daddy was kidnapped, it was sort of a major red alert, because
they’d all been worrying that something like that would happen, although they
didn’t believe it ever could. We were all
pretty upset, as you can imagine, but didn’t know what to do about it. Who had kidnapped Daddy? Uncle Merle was sure it was the CIA or the FBI.
Jimmy thought it was a terrorist group, and Maya thought it was a corporate
cartel -- lots of people seemed to be getting upset about our growing peace campaign. For some reason lots of people seemed to think
that ‘peace’ was a dangerous idea. I don’t know what Jesse thought, but then I
really didn’t care. And I was really upset
that she seemed to be so upset. Mom didn’t
like it at all either. I could tell she
was jealous, and that made me feel a little better. We waited for hours, but no one called about
a ransom or anything like that. Then, just
as Mom had called the police and had been told that we had to wait 24 hours before
they would do anything, Dad walked in through the back door into the kitchen.
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