The Door in the Alley by Adrienne Kress

Author:Adrienne Kress
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2017-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

The man stuck his head out the window and stared at her, aghast. She understood the feeling; she was pretty aghast herself. What on earth had possessed her to just launch herself out through a third-story window like that? Well, fear for her life, she supposed.

The window was far too small for him to crawl through, so she turned and continued her journey, holding her body flat against the building, inching her way along its side until she made it to a drainage pipe covered in ivy. She looked up. The roof wasn’t so far away, and it did look a lot safer than her tiny brick ledge. Evie turned back to the man and almost fainted. She grabbed on to the pipe tightly, just as her feet slipped out from beneath her; then she steadied herself and stared at the gun sticking out through the window, aimed directly at her.

“Come back, girly,” said the man. “I don’t want to have to shoot you.”

“You really shouldn’t feel any obligation to, you know,” she called back, pretty certain that such a reasonable suggestion would be lost on him. Sure enough, the man cocked the gun instead.

The decision was made. She turned and began to climb as quickly as she could, using the ivy as a kind of rope ladder and pulling herself up the drainage pipe.

There was a loud explosion from behind her as the man fired his gun, but Evie didn’t look back. She just let her adrenaline take her upward at an impressive speed until she was at the roof, pulling herself up by her hands and rolling onto the flat surface. A wave of relief washed over her.

Evie sat up quickly and looked around. There was a fire exit down at the other end of the roof by one of the Gothic towers. She got to her feet and made her way over to it, suddenly feeling the ache in her muscles and the hitch in her lungs. She was also realizing just what a dangerous thing she’d done, and fear coursed through her veins as she reached for the door handle. Fortune was on her side again; it too was unlocked. She yanked the door open.

And then fortune decided to switch teams.

The melted man was right there below, rushing up the stairs to get her. She slammed the door shut and ran in the opposite direction, looking around frantically as she did. And then she saw it.

The clock tower.

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