The Dark Academy (Supervillain High Book 4) by Gehrke Gerhard

Author:Gehrke, Gerhard [Gehrke, Gerhard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing
Published: 2017-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

16. Ticket to Ride

Time was hard to measure, but it felt like hours. Poser busied himself on a blank spot of the wall with a black marker he found, drawing a fanged rabbit with a halo of flames around its head. Brendan was also up out of his chair and pacing. Finally he began pounding on the door until someone on the other side said, “Knock it off.”

Brendan was surprised. He had thought they were alone. “You can’t keep us in here!” he shouted.

There was no answer, so he pounded again. He heard some sounds but didn’t get another response. There were no neighbors. There was no one who would hear them if they called for help. All the agent outside the door had to do was ignore them.

“This isn’t right,” Brendan said to Poser.

“You think?” Poser’s marker was running out of ink. He shook it vigorously. “You know, if they take us to prison, you’ll have to show me the ropes, since you have so much experience on this side of the legal system.”

“You’ll be fine. You haven’t done anything.”

Brendan once again inspected the corners of the office and the boarded-up windows. Nothing had changed from the last twelve times he had gone over everything. The desk was the only piece of furniture in the room besides the chairs, and it was greasy. The floor was filthy too, and there were water stains on the wall to the garage. He checked the inside of the desk. Its drawers had been removed long ago. At the windows, he worked his fingers around the edges of the plywood sheets. They had been screwed in tight and had no budge to them.

Brendan sank to the floor next to Poser. “How long before someone calls the cops?”

“They might be looking for us because we messed with the game,” Poser said. “But our chaperone will know by now we’re gone for sure. I wonder where the feds were going.”

Brendan took his tiny drones out of his pocket. Without his tablet, they weren’t much use and would only hover. “I guess I should have listened to Tina. I could be in Arizona right now.”

“Arizona sucks.”

“It’d be better than this.”

“Not by much.”

They heard a car pull up outside. “Doesn’t sound like the van,” Brendan said.

The door to the office opened. Lucille stood there. When both boys hesitated, she waved them on.

“Where did you…what about the—” Brendan started to ask, but she put a finger to her lips and pointed into the garage. An agent was sitting on a chair and sleeping. Poser slipped past them and examined the man. He waved a hand by his face.

“He’s asleep,” Poser mouthed.

Lucille whispered, “Duh.” She beckoned them towards a door. Brendan saw their backpacks in the other room and grabbed both. The agent looked as if he would wake up at any moment, but he didn’t stir as they exited through the front door. Once outside, they followed Lucille to a small electric car that waited for them. An older woman sat in the driver’s seat.

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