"What shall we do?" Dilan says.
Daniel looks at him, then he looks at Richard.
"I don't know. Shall we contact the police?"
"No, don't do that. You understand what will happen. They will put me in the orphanage again. Please don't do that."
"But what did you have in mind then? How will you do with your uncle? How does he get liquor by the way? Won't he be sober when he's out of liquor?"
"He goes and buys new. I don't know. Somehow he gets it", Richard says.
The three boys stand silent for a moment and look down a little in the sand.
"Let's get the others", says Daniel.
"Yes", says Dilan.
"Do you wait here while we get them?" says Daniel. He starts walking towards the village. Dilan starts following and then turns around.
"Wait here!" he says to Richard. Richard looks at him.
Ten minutes later Daniel, Gina, Dilan, Luke and Paula are on their way through the reed that separates the shore from a parking place. They take off their shoes and come out barefoot on the beach. Daniel and Dilan looks towards where Richard and the dinghy were.
"What?" says Daniel?
"Eh, oh", says Dilan ominously.
Both Richard and the dinghy are gone.
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