Ingrid Law by Savvy

Author:Savvy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

At the very same moment, Samson leaned forward from his hidey-hole behind the counter and bit The Great and Powerful Ozzie hard on the leg.

Ozzie shrieked like a little girl and the banana cream pie flew out of his hands to land upside down with a sickening splump on the floor in front of him.

“Why you little—!” Clutching his leg and hopping on one foot, Ozzie pulled the pie knife back out of the tub menacingly.

“No!” I cried out.

Seeing Samson pop up from behind the counter within easy reach of the angry man and his pie knife, Bobbi and Will rushed across the floor of the diner. They both tried to grab for the knife over the countertop as Samson shot out from behind it, running toward the storeroom. Fish and I charged forward and together we shoved Ozzie hard in the middle of his muscled back, sending him lurching forward and slip-sliding through the fallen pie. The burly man skated on one foot through bananas and custard as Fish’s angry wind swept through the diner, unbalancing Ozzie even further. Ozzie toppled backward with a thud.

The red-haired waitress screamed and customers rose to their feet, unsure if they should help or even whose side they should be on if they did.

“Let’s get out of here!” Bobbi shouted, sprinting around the counter to help Lill and Lester collect the rest of the money. Then she and Will Junior herded the rooted and rattled adults past the cursing, floundering Ozzie and back toward the Employees Only door for an emergency escape out the emergency exit door, Fish and I wasting no time in following.

Passing through the storeroom, Lill grabbed her sweater from its peg and looked at the rest of us, shaking her head. Her face was red and she had pie on her big white shoes.

“Sorry all,” Lill said breathlessly as we headed toward the door. “Looks like we bad kids and misfits got to hit the road again.” She pointed toward the baskets sitting on the desk where Bobbi had set them earlier. “Grab those burgers, kidlings. You can eat on the bus.” Lill looked down at Samson, who had taken her hand, looking mournful. “Sorry about the banana cream, critter,” Lill said with earnest. Lester stopped short.

“Everyone just hold on one minute.” Lester’s decisive tone stopped us in our tracks. Without even pausing to twitch, he hoisted one finger into the air like a signal to charge, then turned and pushed back through the door to the dining area. For a moment, I thought Lester had blown his last fuse and had run the wrong way by mistake. But a moment later, he was back with a second cream pie held high above his head like a trophy. He barreled across the room in a hot-footed hustle toward the exit, as Lill gave the battered sofa in the storeroom one firm and final kick, just as she’d done to her broken-down car. Then she pushed the rest of us

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