The Pineville Heist by Chambers Lee

Author:Chambers, Lee [Chambers, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: MISFP Publishing (Pineville Heist Inc.)
Published: 2011-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

seventeen

Tremblay's eyelids flickered -- then unzipped. Damage report. Blood staining his lip and chin. Pounding headache. Nothing broken, except maybe the nose. Wouldn't be the first time though.

Finding the crowbar at his fingertips, Tremblay used it as a crutch to push himself to his feet. He staggered off balance until he gained his bearings again. Wiped his sore, bloody nose on the back of his sleeve. Then he smashed the crowbar against the desk, in one furious sweep of the arm, letting out an almighty roar. He was pissed as hell. Now they were gonna suffer.

Aaron and Amanda had arrived at the backpack, left outside of Principal Parker's office. “We should give him the money,” Aaron said, finally considering surrender.

“What the hell for?” Amanda snipped.

“So he won't slaughter us–what do you think?”

Amanda tapped the weighty backpack with her shoe. “Until Carl gets here, this is the only thing keeping us alive.”

With a big swallow, Aaron looked hard at Amanda. “I didn't call him.”

“What?” she screeched at a higher pitch than originally intended.

“The phone didn't work.”

Amanda couldn't hide the swirling whirlpool of panic in her eyes. She rushed to the switchboard, flipped a switch, picked up the receiver and listened. She then dialed a number, throwing Aaron a look of “what the hell?” It was working. Aaron shrugged. Stupid switchboard. Old quirky technology.

A hobbling Tremblay composed himself, dusted off his clothes, and straightened to his usual gait. Walking tall, he made his way along the corridor. He passed a maintenance room on his left and pushed open the door: empty. He kept walking and then stopped in his tracks. He doubled back.

His eyes scanned the interior of the maintenance room. Some cobwebs in the corner. A mop and bucket. Three electrical junction boxes on the wall. Above the boxes hung a huge map of the school's layout, showing its hallways, two main floors, basement and the two main entrance/exits.

Meanwhile, Amanda anxiously bounced her leg as she sat, talking on the phone. “Please hurry, Carl. We're locked inside the school and Tremblay is after us… ”

But her call was being routed from the school to Carl's cell phone voicemail. On the passenger seat of his cruiser, the LCD display of the cell phone was brightly lit, with Amanda's missed call. Just feet away, Carl was interviewing a kid, one of Steve's younger brothers–another wild goose chase.

Amanda sighed as she recorded the last of the most hopeless message she'd ever left in her life. “He wants the money and.”

The lights went out across the whole school building. Pitch black.

The phone was dead, too. Amanda shrieked.

Aaron knew it would only get darker.

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