This Story Is a Lie by Tom Pollock

Author:Tom Pollock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2018-08-07T07:00:00+00:00

Last night: we were just about to break the tree line when I dragged Ingrid back. She lost her balance and sprawled onto the leaves.

“Pete, what the hell?”

“Wait a minute,” I panted. Peering between tree trunks, I could see the road. It was deserted under the orange glow of the streetlights, the semis on the other side as neat and quiet as dollhouses. “They left a gap in their cordon.”

“I know. That’s what we’re heading for.”

“But wouldn’t they expect us to do that? I mean, if they catch Bel and we’re not with her, wouldn’t they immediately assume this was our escape route?”

Frankie’s words from earlier in that endless day bobbed to the surface of my mind like mines on water. Four hundred thousand CCTV cameras in this city . . . We had to assume 57 had access to them all. I imagined their lines of sight spread out across the whole of London, an invisible net to snare us. There was no way we could avoid all of them. Two bloodied, exhausted teenagers stumbling around the streets of South London with nowhere to go and no place to hide; 57 would be on us in a heartbeat.

“You have a better idea?” Ingrid asked. “We can’t stay here.”

I looked back towards the familiar edifice of the school, bulked against the night, and though I could almost hear my past self laughing hysterically at the idea, school was as close to friendly territory as I could think of right now.

“You know what? Maybe we can.”

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