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“Dancing, mostly,” Albert said

“Excuse me?”

“Kids are dancing”

Quinn caught up then and stepped in front of Sam to shake Albert’s still-extended hand “Hey, dude I have batteries”

“Good to see you, Quinn The price is four D cells, or eight double As, or ten triple As, or a dozen Cs If you have a mix, I can work it out”

Quinn dug in his pocket and produced four triple A batteries and three D cells He handed thereed to the price and dropped the batteries into a plastic bag at his feet

“Okay, the rules are no food, no alcohol, no attitude, no fights, and when I call ‘tiree to these rules?”

“Dude, if I had any food, would I be here? I’d be ho it” Quinn put his hand over his heart like he was pledging allegiance to the flag and said, “I do” He jerked a thumb back at Sam “Don’t bother with him: Sam doesn’t dance”

“Have a good ti open the door to admit him

Sae and an urge to laugh in admiration

“Who told you you could do this?” Sam asked

Albert shrugged “Same person who told me I could run the McDonald’s until we ran out of food: no one I just did it”

“Fine, but you gave away the food Now you’re charging people That’s not cool, Albert”

“You’re trying to profit?” This from Astrid, who had followed Sam, Little Pete in tow

Inside, theSa tune “Into Action” If he ever were to dance, this ht be the tune that did it