Don't Move a Muscle! by P.J. Night

Author:P.J. Night
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

For the second time since Cora had met him, Evan said, “It’s just me!” But this time he was talking as quietly as he could. “Don’t scream,” he murmured. “I had to make sure they didn’t run into you.” He took his hand off Cora’s mouth. “Are you okay?”

“I will be, when you let go of me!”

“Oops. I didn’t realize—” Evan still had one arm tight around Cora’s waist. Now he let go of her. “The supply closet was the closest place,” he said. “Sorry it’s so dark.”

Cora never imagined that someone could move as fast as Evan, especially when he was pulling her along with him. It wasn’t as if she were a giant, but Evan had dragged her around the corner and into this closet so quickly that it had almost seemed like flying. Now they were standing in the dark. The crack under the door supplied only a dim line of light. But Cora’s eyes were gradually getting used to the dark, and she could see that Evan had his ear pressed to the closed door.

“I don’t hear anything,” he whispered. “They must have gone upstairs. Let’s get out of here. We’ll use the side door.”

In a few seconds they were outside, where even the sculpture garden seemed like a relief. When they reached the steps and sat down, there was a long silence. Finally Cora spoke up.

“What was that all about? Why did you tackle and drag me away instead of letting me meet your bosses?”

“You don’t understand. This wasn’t the right time! They’ve both been in terrible moods all day,” Evan said.

“Evan, are you doing something you shouldn’t by having me here? I don’t want to get you in trouble.”

And I don’t want to get myself in trouble either, Cora thought.

“No! No, no! Really, no,” Evan said. “No way,” he added for emphasis. “Bringing you here is exactly what I should be doing. Because I want to see you as much as I can. It’s lonely on the days you’re not here, when it’s just me and those two—” He gave an exaggerated, cartoony look over his shoulder to make sure the sisters weren’t watching them.

Cora started to feel better. Evan really did like her as much as she liked him. And although the evening had been a little weird, it had still been romantic. Here on the front steps, in the dim glow of an overhead lantern, she was sitting next to someone who might be her boyfriend. . . .

But even in this mood, she remembered that strange hissing noise.

“Before you did your Superman thing and dragged me away, I heard this hissing sound from the room where your bosses were working. Do you have any idea what it was?”

“Hissing?” Evan stared at her. “I don’t know what you mean. Did it sound like a teakettle? They keep a plug-in kettle in their office.”

“This was nothing like a teakettle,” Cora said.

Evan shrugged. “Must have been the radiator, then. Steam heat hisses a lot, especially in old houses.

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