The Torah Codes by Ezra Barany

Author:Ezra Barany [Barany, Ezra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
Publisher: Dafkah Books
Published: 2011-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 48

Sophia twisted her hand out of Luke McCourt’s, grabbed her backpack purse, and ran to the opposite end of the train car. She had to get off this train as soon as possible. But the train had just left Embarcadero station, San Francisco’s last stop before coursing through the Transbay Tube under the water to get to Oakland. Getting to the next stop was going to take some time.

The double sliding doors that led out from one car to the other had high resistance to opening. Sophia used her adrenaline and her whole body to open the first pair of sliding doors.

When the doors opened, the loud sound of the train cutting through the tunnel on its tracks clacked and sighed and squeaked and groaned. Sophia moved into the thin space between the cars and heaved her body into opening the second set of sliding doors.

The train car she entered had a few passengers who looked up at her. When the sliding doors closed behind her, the clacketing sound of the train muted, and the passengers returned to their reading and sleeping and chatting.

Sophia looked behind her. McCourt had stood up and was coming for her. She raced down to the next set of doors and pushed through those, and on to the next car, and on to the next. Each time, she got closer to the front of the train and each time, she noticed that McCourt was further back.

She made it to the front car and looked behind her. McCourt wasn’t visible. He was probably a few doors down.

“You look like you’re trying to get away from someone.” A big grunt of a man looked up at her from his seat.

“As a matter of fact, I am,” Sophia said.

“Tell you what.” He removed his large, down jacket. “Sit beside me, hide under my jacket, and he’ll get off the next station thinking that’s what you did.”

Sophia checked behind her. There was no sign of McCourt just yet. She stepped over the man’s legs to get to the window seat next to him. He handed her the jacket, and she easily hid her entire body beneath it.

The jacket smelled of sweat and smoke and dirt and body odor. Her breathing made the area underneath heat up. She fought the urge to see where Luke was because she knew she’d be able to hear him. If suddenly the sound of the train got louder, that meant the sliding doors were opening and it meant someone was entering the train car.

But before that inevitable sound came, Sophia felt the train slow down.

“Oakland West,” the driver announced over the PA.

The train came to a stop. Sophia heard the doors open.

She waited. The wait lasted five seconds, then ten, then fifteen. “Doors are closing,” the driver said. “Doors are closing.”

She heard the ping sound of the automatic warning for the closing of the doors, and at last the doors closed.

Sophia peaked out from under the man’s jacket. She didn’t see McCourt on the train or in the next car over.

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