Found by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Author:Stacey Wallace Benefiel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Write Free
Published: 2013-02-24T06:00:00+00:00

Wyatt

I walk across the rotunda, scoping out the guard station. Phil catches my eye and nods at me. I nod back and keep on walking until I’m in the administrative hall. Back to the wall, I slide my body to the edge of it and count to twenty before I peek around it at the guard station again. This time it’s empty. I take off at a jog, jump over the exit gate and am at the stairs when I hear footsteps behind me.

I hug the interior wall of the stairwell and look over my shoulder. Penny comes bounding up the stairs, two at a time.

“What are you doing?” I whisper.

“What does it look like?” she says, putting her hands on her hips and thrusting her chest out. “I’m going with you. There’s no way in hell I can handle giving up complete control of my visions, whether it’s protocol or not.”

“Fine,” I say wheeling around like I’m pissed off, but really I want to point the hard-on she’s just given me away from her. “Follow my lead, at least.”

She comes up close behind me as I start up the stairs. I stop at the top, wave my badge and punch in Ben’s access code. I feel slightly guilty about using it, knowing he gave it to me in case of emergency, but maybe if I can find Parker Henry on my own…maybe if I have a Lookout triumph, Ben will see that I’m not just pathetic little Wyatt and he’ll trust me with access codes of my own.

The keypad beeps and the door opens -- only I’m not opening it and neither is Penny.

I’ll admit it, what I did next was half out of panic, half out of curiosity.

Wheeling back around, I push Penny’s body into the wall with mine and put my lips to her lips. I don’t really kiss her; that would be going too far.

I feel her mouth smile and giggles erupt up her torso.

“Wyatt? What are you doing?” Christopher says with an exasperated sigh. “You know you’re not supposed to be topside unless Phil or one of us authorizes it.”

I pull back from Penny. She’s all smiles. “Well, Uncle Chris, the plan really wasn’t to go topside…”

He rolls his eyes at me and flicks me on the forehead. “Surely, you can…” He shrugs. “I don’t know what to say.” He waves us back down the stairs. “Go play video games or something.”

Penny and I fast walk it down the stairs and past the guard station, Phil giving us the stink eye. Penny gets another case of the giggles and grabs my hand, pulling me down the dorm hall to her room.

“Should we try again later tonight?” she asks, stopping at her door and looking up at me.

It takes me a moment to realize she’s talking about sneaking out and not kissing. I shake my head. “Nah. That was our one opportunity. We’re on Phil’s radar now – no way he pees until curfew when security switches over to auto-Phil, which is even harder to get past than regular Phil.

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