Running Scared by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Chapter

Eleven

ANNETTE! GEORGE!” Nancy shouted, stopping her bike with a jerk. “Somebody’s shooting at us. Head for cover!”

The other two didn’t wait or ask questions but raced for the side of the path.

Her heart pounding, Nancy jumped from the bike and threw herself to the ground on the other side of the path from George and Annette. She was fairly sure this was the side the shots had come from.

With a quick turn of her head, Nancy saw that the other two had taken shelter behind the thick trunks of two old oaks. “Are you guys all right?”

“Fine!” George yelled back.

“I’m okay, too,” Annette added.

“I’m going to look around!” Nancy shouted to them. “Stay put until I get back.”

“Should you do that?” Annette called. But Nancy was already on the move.

She darted from tree to tree, heading away from the path and up a rise. The sniper would probably choose high ground, she reasoned.

Even though she was behind a tree, Nancy felt exposed and defenseless. She fought back her fear and forced herself to look ahead for a clue to the shooter’s position.

Nancy froze as a bullet whined by, chipping the tree just above her head. In the next instant she saw a flash from a thick tangle of bushes.

Racing from tree to tree, Nancy headed toward the bushes where she had seen movement. She was about fifty yards away when a figure in dark clothes and a ski mask bolted from the brush and ran, away from Nancy.

Nancy took off in pursuit. “Stop!” she yelled, but it was useless. The person reached a road that was at a right angle to Lake Shore Drive. He leapt into the driver’s side of a light blue car with a big scrape on the right rear fender. The engine roared to life, and the car screamed away as Nancy reached the road.

Breathing deeply, Nancy tried to squelch her frustration. She hadn’t gotten a good look at the person at all!

Just before the car disappeared out of sight, however, she noticed something that made her start. The car had an ICT placard in the side window!

“Uh-oh,” Nancy said out loud. She hadn’t actually identified Kevin, but there were no two ways about it—she had to talk to George now.

Nancy’s mood was grim as she walked back to where the sniper had hidden. She spotted a gleam of metal in the bushes, bent down, and picked up an empty bullet cartridge. A fast search uncovered two more, which she pocketed. Then she hurried back to the spot where Annette and George were still pressed against the tree trunks.

“All clear,” she announced. “Whoever it was got away.”

George’s face was pale as she emerged from behind her tree. Annette also seemed a little shaken.

“Hey, look at that!” Nancy exclaimed as her gaze lit on a huge structure nearby.

“That’s Buckingham Fountain,” Annette said.

Water was pouring down the sides of the multitiered fountain to a pool that surrounded it. Something stirred in the back of Nancy’s memory, but she couldn’t bring it into focus.

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