Deadrock by Jill Sardegna

Author:Jill Sardegna [Sardegna, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Planetary Earth Date: 18.7.2015

Monday morning Ted barely entered the office before he left again. Max looked for Bird and found him hunched over his laptop, checking from a paper file to the screen and back again. Max rushed to him.

"What are you doing? Ted's leaving!" he said.

"Oh? Okay, I'm on my way," said Bird who slammed his laptop shut and crammed the file into a drawer. He bounded along the corridor and slam-dunked the nose of the giant rat swinging from the ceiling. "Keep an eye on the office for me, Big Red!"

Nickie waved to Bird as she passed him in the doorway. "Morning, Max. Where's Mr. Bird going?"

"He's…he's going after that donated Bowflex."

"You know, he is really amazing. He's only been here a few days but he's already gotten more things donated than I did in a month. Just look at this desk!" She sorted through the mound of objects on Bird's desk.

"Speaking of desks, have you been to your office yet?" he said.

"No, why? Why are you smiling like that? What did you do?" She followed his gaze to the floor where a line of bunny stickers led around the corner. She laughed and followed the stickers to her cubicle. Max climbed on a chair and watched over the wall as she found the stuffed bunny on her desk.

"Max, this is really sweet. Just like The Runaway Bunny, huh?"

He nodded.

"Thank you, Max." She smiled at him and patted the bunny. Max lowered himself down into his chair. Alllright! he thought. He raised his legs to put his feet up on the desk and banged his knee on the partially closed drawer.

"Gnartz, Bird!" he said, rubbing his throbbing knee. Always leaving drawers open, always dropping his towels on the floor. Always getting into things he shouldn't, thought Max. Huh, like that file. With the pain subsiding, Max's curiosity grew.

Okay, Bird, he thought, what's so interesting about that file? He pulled the file from the drawer and saw the heading: ONLINE AND MAIL ORDER SHIPPING RECORDS. He flipped open the laptop and brought up the corresponding file, scanning down the figures for the last six months. He checked the hardcopy against the figures on the screen.

Hmmm, pretty steady growth, he thought. Let's see, by March the totals were 936,908 tiny time capsules shipped, in April 954,871 had shipped, by May 962,324, June…wow, June was a good month – 987,543 had shipped.

The air conditioning kicked in and Big Red began to sway gently in the breeze. It seemed to Max that the sinister rat was rotating in his direction to poke his nose over his shoulder and into his business. Its black, beady eyes seemed to know he was an imposter. Max uneasily turned his back to the mammoth rodent and bent back to the laptop. Now, by July, he thought, we should see that millionth capsule shipped. Yep, there it is, on both sets of records. So why is Bird so curious about these records? And why is he doing independent investigating? I'm supposed to be in charge!

He closed the laptop and thought.

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