𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥

004. Indiana Flyer.

     

     THE THREE got started on translating the message that played on tape. Valerie was listening intently, sitting across Dustin on the table as Steve was pacing back and forth, eating a banana. Dustin paused the tape, "so what do you guys think?" He asked the two.

"It sounded familiar." Steve says, eating the last of his banana. "What?" Dustin says as Valerie turns to Steve right away. "The music. The music right there at the end." Steve says and Valerie gives a confused look. "Why are you listening to music? We're suppose translate the Russian, dingus." She says and Steve looks at her right away with a surprised look.

"I'm trying to listen to the Russian, but there's music--" Steve is cut off by Robin bursting into the back room and Valerie immediately stood up. "Alright, babysitting time is over. You need to get in there." She says as Steve backs away and Valerie joins him, standing between Steve and Dustin as they look at Robin.

"Hey, my board. That was important data, shitbirds." She turns to them and Valerie glanced at Dustin. "I told you she'd be upset." She whispered. "I guarantee you, what we're doing is way more important than your data." Dustin says and Robin nods. "Yeah? And how do you know these Russians are up to no good anyways?" She walks up to the other end of the table and Dustin looks at Steve and Valerie.

"How does she know about the Russians?"

Steve and Valerie both are confused, "I don't know." Steve shrugs. "You told her about--" "it wasn't me." Steve immediately says and Valerie shakes her head. "Not me either..." She whispered. "Hello, I can hear you." Robin quickly caught their attention again.

The three look at her. "Actually, I can hear everything. You two are extremely loud, Valerie is the only person here who knows how to whisper." Robin says and Valerie smiled, glancing at Steve and Dustin. "You think you have evil Russians plotting against our country, on tape, and you're trying to translate, but you haven't figured out a single word because you didn't realize the Russians use an entirely different alphabet than we do. Sound about right?" She said then she reached over.

"Whoa!" Steve exclaimed, snatching the tape player off the table, "what do you think you're doing?" He asked her. "I wanna hear it." She says and Valerie just stared at her. She's so cute. "Why?" Steve and Dustin both asked. "'Cause maybe I can help..." Robin says.

"Just let her hear it." Valerie snatched the tape from Steve's hands. "She needs a break from serving to annoying costumers anyway. Steve, you go on out there now." She says, walking over to Robin and handing over the tape but Steve tried to stop her from it.

"Steve... we can trust her. She knows Spanish, French and Italian, and she's been in band for 12 years..." Valerie says and Robin stared at her for a couple of seconds then glanced at Steve. "Yeah, my ears are little geniuses. It's your turn to sling ice cream, my turn to translate. I don't even want credit, I'm just bored." She says and Steve lets go of Valerie's wrist, sighing.

Valerie holds out the tape, smiling as Robin then takes it from her hand and Steve heads out to the front, glancing at the other three. Valerie sits down across from Robin who presses the play button, setting down the tape.

After the whole afternoon passed, they were still trying to get the whole recording. "Wait, that last part, just one more time." Robin says and Dustin nods, rewinding the tape before pressing play again. "Okay, that word, um..." Dustin paused the tape as Robin kept pacing.

"It's pronounced... dly-nna-ya..." Robin says as Dustin and Valerie both nod. "Dly-nna-ya." The two repeated after her. "Which is spelt... D..." Robin sits down as Valerie runs over to their whiteboard they wrote the Russian alphabet on. "The ch-chair? The chair-looking thingy." She pointed and Robin looks over, smiling before she wrote it down. When Robin writes down the first sentence they translated, Valerie smiles widely, "I'll go tell Steve!" She rushed over to the window to the front which she opens.