Kung Fu High School by Ryan Gattis

Author:Ryan Gattis [Gattis, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

GETTING BACK

But right before the two of us were going to walk out the building exit of the cafeteria kitchen, I stopped. Something was wrong.

"Jimmy, we can't go out this way." I said it as quietly as I could.

As good as Bruiser was, there was no way he was the only one. I saw a shadow move under the door, a foot. This was pretty close to the sloppiest ambush I'd ever seen.

"Yeah, I know," Jimmy said. "So what now?"

"We got to go out the back, once we get past the trucks, we cut left, take the alley, and you know the way home from there."

More than likely we were surrounded, but if that was the case, whoever it was would bank on us leaving the way we came and not by the trucks because, supposedly, there were a lot of guys out there and none out the front. Fuck them. Trucks it was. Jimmy led and I followed as we ducked down the hall that connected the kitchen to the rear room and its giant pale green refrigerators. Over Jimmy's shoulder, I could see light coming from the outside and the open exit door. But I could also see two Runners, dropping their boxes and coming at us. Jimmy pushed me backward into the hall and I nearly fell over. I hadn't expected it.

You know, it's just never like the movies. All that back and forth and pretty blocking and kicking and drama, you can forget about that shit. When someone as skilled as Jimmy fights an amateur, or worse, a beginner, it's over before a punch is even thrown. Not that they know it. See, by the time I regained my balance and hauled myself up on a wooden cabinet, I caught sight of Jimmy flitting out the exit. I just heard the sound of Cue's old flannel ripple behind him and then he was gone.

Both Runners were paralyzed in his wake: the first one, leaning back like he was going to throw a punch, the second one, actually tipped over on his side, sprawled rigid across the floor as he'd been caught trying to kick. Jimmy must've taken pity on him and set him on his side rather than allowing him to fall. He never would've stayed balanced on one leg like that. Both Runners had the same looks on their faces that Bruiser had. They looked like little boys faced with the terrifying experience of black magic for the first time. I seriously had to get Jimmy to teach me that. I couldn't think of anything more powerful than hitting the right pressure points and getting someone to stop dead but keep breathing. And the fact that he could do the same on different people, of different heights, and that he could do it every time without fail and without killing them boggled my mind.

Couldn't stay boggled for long though because a Runner came out of one of the walk-in freezers with a box. She dropped it and it made a sound like something broke inside.

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