With the Enemy by Gray Eva

Author:Gray, Eva [Gray, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780545388337
Amazon: B005HE2Q42
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

What’s wrong?” Alonso asks, looking really alarmed. I guess crying girls are a little scary. “Did you lose your compass?”

That makes me smile for a second. “I — I thought she was dead,” I say. “Maddie. I couldn’t figure out why they kidnapped her except to lure us into a trap or as a lesson to our parents, and I thought —”

“That’s why you were so tense the other night when Louisa started asking why they’d kidnapped Maddie,” he says.

That surprises me. “You noticed?”

“You hid it well, but I — I felt like there was something going on.” He nods. “Why didn’t you say something?”

“Because I didn’t know if I was right or it was just another of my crazy theories. And because it would have upset everyone for no reason.”

“You could have told me.”

I am looking up at him and I have that strange feeling again.

“You can always tell me your crazy theories,” he goes on. “It can still be a secret if you share it with one other person. And it will make you feel better.”

“I guess.”

“And maybe they’ll have other ideas. Like remember how Louisa said Maddie’s dad was a communications expert? That could be why she was taken.”

“You’re right,” I say.

I don’t realize I’m staring at him until he makes a point of gesturing at the screen. “But now that we found Maddie, we should probably go. Especially since she’s going to be moved around this time tomorrow.”

It’s true. But I just want to check one more thing. I quickly write a bot to scan for Wren Chavez.

Nothing comes up.

But the amount of information on here is incredible. If only there were some way to insert a wormhole so the Resistance or the army could get access, I think, typing furiously.

I’m in kind of a daze so I only half pay attention when Alonso says, “Can you erase the evidence of your searches?”

“Mm-hmm,” I answer.

“Evelyn,” he says, and I look up from what I’m typing. “We have to move.”

“I just need a few more minutes. You don’t understand. This could change the War. If I —”

“We don’t have time for that. We can’t risk leaving any traces of what you’re doing. If they discover we were looking for Maddie, she’s as good as moved before we get there.”

“Sure, you bet,” I say, still typing. “Just one more thing.”

There are more footsteps upstairs.

“We have to leave,” Alonso says with new urgency that jolts me out of what I am doing.

I stop searching and look for an “erase history” tab but of course that would be too easy, so I go into the main directory and start deleting logs.

This computer moves at the pace of a glacier.

“Come on — we have to go,” Alonso urges. He’s half-in and half-out of the door, squeezing the rubber ball that had been on the desk.

“If there is a picture in the dictionary of ‘slow,’ I bet it would be this computer,” I say. “I’m not quite finished.”

“That doesn’t matter. Listen,” he says.

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