Live and Let Shop by Michael P. Spradlin

Author:Michael P. Spradlin [Spradlin, Michael P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5787-4
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-10-30T00:14:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Does This Place Have Cable?

ORDINARILY, I DON’T THINK of myself as the bravest person in the world. I don’t like dark places. I don’t like scary movies. Weird stuff kind of creeps me out. As I stood there I thought, Don’t do it, Rachel. Don’t go down there. Who knows what you will find. I was giving myself smart advice. I knew what I should do is go back to my room and either forget the whole thing or get Pilar and see if we could sneak over to Brent and Alex’s room and get them to come with us. And maybe Mr. Quinn. And Mr. Torres from Tae Kwon Do. And Mr. Elliot from gym. He was tough. Unlike, say, me.

But it was me I was dealing with, so there was no way I was going to forget it. Going to get Pilar would be smart, but I might be seen on the way out or back and then we’d be busted. You never knew where Mrs. Marquardt or one of the other resident faculty members was going to pop up. And if I told Mr. Quinn or somebody, they might not let me go with them and then I’d never know what was going on. That would be worse than any of the other options.

In the few seconds it took me to think all of this, the bookcase/secret passageway solved the problem for me, because the hissing sound started again, and it began to close. I jumped through the doorway and onto the top step of the stairway as the wall closed up behind me—as I said before, despite not exercising before I got to Blackthorn, I was always pretty quick on my feet.

When the wall closed behind me I thought I would freak, because it was pitch black. But right as I was about to scream, lights came on automatically and I swallowed the scream in my throat.

The stairway wasn’t like a stairway in an office building or hotel that twisted around and went back and forth. This one went straight down. A long way straight down. All I could think of was a mine shaft or those steps that people have to walk down when a roller coaster breaks at the very top.

Well. What to do. I looked at the walls to either side of me. On my left there was a little red button with a sign above it that said “Exit.” That must get me out. And since I’d gone this far….

I started down the steps. After about ten minutes and what must have been the equivalent of ten or twelve flights of stairs, I finally reached the bottom. I found an archway that led through to a short hallway with a gray steel door at the end of it. I walked up to the door and listened. I couldn’t hear anything at all except the faint hum of the lights. Now I was a little bit scared. What if there was someone

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