The Witnesses by James Patterson & Brendan Dubois

Author:James Patterson & Brendan Dubois [Patterson, James & Dubois, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316418744
Amazon: 0316418749
Barnesnoble: 0316418749
Publisher: BookShots
Published: 2017-12-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Sam Sanderson opens the door to his bedroom, checks out the hallway. All quiet. Lights off. Of course it would be quiet…this crappy place doesn’t even have a television!

He closes the door, pops himself down on his unmade bed. He’s got books, he’s got dinosaur models…and he’s bored.

God, he’s so bored.

No television!

And there’s no computer!

Oh, Mom has a laptop, but something inside the computer has been switched off, meaning it can’t be used to access the internet.

So Sam can’t do research on which new dinosaur models he wants to order, he can’t check out the dinosaur forums he loves to poke around in, and he can’t email…about a half-dozen of his buds back in California must be wondering why he hasn’t answered them.

Great. When he finally gets back to Palo Alto, his friends will think he’s been a jerk because he hasn’t answered their emails.

Plus…he reaches into his jeans pocket, tugs out a piece of metal and plastic, rolls it around in his fingers. This is something he picked up back at that desert place, something he hadn’t shown Dad. It wasn’t one of those broken bowl pieces, for sure…it looked too new. So what is it?

He puts it back in his pocket. If he had a computer that really worked, he could find out…

Sam bounces off the bed, opens the door one more time. Still dark, still quiet. He wonders where Jason is hiding. Ever since they left Tunisia, that scary bad guy has been hanging with them, day after day. Sam knows something bad happened back in Tunisia, but why should he have to pay for it?

He can’t go anywhere alone, he can’t go play in the yard by himself, and no computer…

Man, he’s bored!

He closes the door and tries to tiptoe back to his bed.

Bored or not, he has a plan.

This crappy house has a house to the left and one to the right. The one to the left has some snoopy old guy who keeps on peeking in at them with binoculars. But the other house…there’s a guy and girl who live there together, and the funny thing is, they both work at night.

Which means that, right now, their house is empty.

The house he can see through his bedroom window.

And he knows they use a computer…because he can see them working on it in their living room.

Sam knows something else, too.

The other day the two of them came back from some errand, and he saw the woman dig and dig through her purse, and then the guy laughed at her and removed a brick from the steps, took out a key, and unlocked the front door.

So the house over there is empty.

The house that has a computer.

And he knows where the key to the door is hidden.

Sam goes to the window, opens up the lock, and slides the window open, and then the screen. It makes a squeaky noise.

He waits.

And waits.

No one seems to have heard him.

Good!

He clambers outside and steps on the grass and then starts to the empty house.

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