CHAPTER 34

the blue dot flashes

When we got into the Thirty-Third Street station, we decided to walk up to Central Park. We realized then that it was pretty dumb for us not to bring any money because we passed a bunch of pizza places walking up Sixth Avenue. I was starving. Bones, however, was all focused on our mission—plus he said the cancer medication he had to take made him feel seasick. (Seemed an odd analogy to me because the Green Bean has never been on a boat.)

We reached Fifty-Seventh Street and we could see the entrance to Central Park just beyond the rotary of Columbus Circle. I was pulling out Stevie’s phone to check on the Engineer app when a homeless man approached Bones.

He got up into Bones’ face and said, “Hey, kid. You got any money?” Just as I was about to tell the guy to beat it, Bones reached deep into his right pocket and pulled out a bunch of lint. Then he dug deep into his other pocket and out popped a couple of quarters.

You’d think he had just won the lottery with how happy and surprised he was to see the money. He handed it to the homeless man and said, “Sorry, it’s all I got.”

Here we were on this wild—actually it was just plain ridiculous—journey to find the guy who could unlock this time travel app so we could find the cure to cancer, and he gives away all the money he had. We could’ve bought a tomato at a fruit stand or something.

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