Pursued by Jerry B. Jenkins

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781414363554
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

21

SOMEONE was following her in a car. Vicki clutched her books to her chest and walked toward town. She didn’t look back. She couldn’t risk letting them know she suspected.

Mrs. Jenness had let her go. That was a surprise. But Vicki would have stayed all night without ratting on her friends. But would her friends be as faithful to her?

Seeing Shelly and her mother in the principal’s office had sickened Vicki. Shelly had been sincere about her faith, hadn’t she? Could it have been an act? The sight of Judd, John, and Mark turning away from her down the hall made her heart sink. Didn’t they care? Or were they trying to protect her by keeping their distance?

Vicki had a good idea who was following her: someone from school assigned to see where she went. Perhaps Judd and the others had figured that out. They wouldn’t have simply abandoned her.

Vicki had to get back to her friends. She had to talk with Pastor Bruce. When Mrs. Jenness discovered she had no parents, all the kids would be at risk. She needed to keep moving and stay away from Judd’s house.

Vicki looked in shop windows and followed the reflection of the trailing car. When it stopped, she ducked into a drugstore. She sat at a bench in the back and tapped out a message on the tiny digital system on her wrist that looked like a watch. She asked Judd to meet her at a nearby park. She would try to shake whoever was following her and meet him there.

The front door opened. A man’s voice. Loud. “Did a girl with red hair come in here?”

Vicki crouched beneath the prescription window.

“Right there,” the cashier said.

Vicki looked up. The overhead mirror ran the length of the wall and angled down. The man behind the counter pointed toward her. Vicki remembered how her little sister, Jeanni, used to play hide-and-seek by sticking her head in the closet, her rear sticking out of the coats.

“Duh,” Vicki said as she leapt to her feet.

“Stop!” the cashier shouted.

Vicki pushed open a door that said EMPLOYEES ONLY.

“Hey, you can’t go in there!” the pharmacist barked.

“We’ll get her,” someone shouted.

Vicki locked the door behind her. Footsteps and shouts outside. Darkness inside. Vicki fumbled for a light switch. Keys were jangling, getting closer.

“What did she take?” someone said.

Vicki moved toward a thin strip of light on the other 190 side of the room. The back door! She tripped over a chair and banged her head. The doorknob jiggled behind her.

She leaned against the back door, and it swung open to blistering light. A siren rang just above her head. She staggered out. As the door swept shut she read, “Emergency Exit Only—Alarm Will Sound.”

She ran.

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