The rest of Chapter 12

“You know him?” Nikki exclaimed, pulling away from Ms. Arachne and running over to Jacques.
He sighed. “Sadly, yes. I used to work with her. But that was before she took her current job. We never really liked each other, but now...” he shrugged. “She’s always hated me. I don’t know why.”
“Why? You want to know why? I’ll tell you why. It’s because in programming I was the best, but because I was a girl, they ignored me. But you! Oh, you were their idol. They kissed the ground you walked on. I was just as god as you, but always in your shadow! It’s not fair! Not fair! Not fair!” she screamed. She looked like a giant two year old throwing a tantrum. A car drove by, and they saw a thirty-five year old woman, on the street screaming. The mom and dad in the car shook their heads, but the three and five year olds laughed hysterically.
Ms. Arachne noticed, and yelled, “Mind your own business, you little twerps!”
“Aah. Now I remember, you always hated kids, especially smart-alecky younger teens that gave you trouble.” Jacques said, with a wink at Riley, Kiley, and Nikki.
“Yes!! That’s why I hate Nikki and her friends, and want them locked away with her parents in Niagara Falls City!” Ms. Arachne gasped and covered her mouth with both hands.
“Nice one!” Bub laughed, mad that she told, yet glad that he was not the one in trouble.
“Shut up.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Bub replied sullenly. He did not like his new ‘partner’.
“Thanks for the valuable info, Ms. Arachne, or should I say, Ms. Wanda Rodes?”
“Hey! I’m not her anymore! I changed my name long ago! That persona is gone! I’m a new woman!”
“Oh?” Jacques said, raising an eyebrow. “That’s not what your passports will say!” he said as he walked over and grabbing her purse and pulled the two passports out. “Well now, look at what we have here! Says that your old ‘persona’ is still you. It doesn’t say anything about a name change. But, your other one says that Ms. Arachne is your birth name. Guess they’re both wrong, eh? And isn’t it illegal to have two passports?”
“You! Ugh! Jerk! I’m leaving, and taking this brat with me!” Ms. Arachne said, grabbing Nikki for the third time that day. Nikki tried to squirm away, but she made eye contact with Jacques, and she knew that she had to go, and they would follow. Then she would escape with their help and rescue her parents. Nikki sighed. Bub trained his gun on them so that Mrs. Pinebaum, Jacques, Riley, and Kylie would not chase them.