Can You Keep a Secret? by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781466892958
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

22.

“I promise. I won’t tell them what’s happening to you.”

I thought about Sophie’s words all day in school. I couldn’t think about much else.

What IS happening to me?

The answers were too frightening. Too weird. Was I going totally insane?

I was desperate for a distraction. I tried to shut everything from my mind as I drove to my after-school job.

Three days a week, I have an after-school job as a nanny. I take care of this sweet little boy named Martin in a house four doors down from Shadyside High. Martin is only fourteen months, and he’s just learned to walk and to run. This means he falls down about a hundred times an hour.

It’s fun to take care of him. He babbles nonsense words all the time I’m there. But the hard part of my job is keeping right beside him and making sure when he falls a hundred times that he doesn’t hit his head or get a bruise that might cost me my job.

I know that sounds cold. Of course, I worry about Martin, too. But his mom pays me really well, and I’m desperate to keep this job.

His mom got home from her job around five thirty, and Martin went wobbling over to her, his arms raised high in a nice greeting. I gave her a short report on all the games we had played and what Martin had eaten. Then I said, “See you next time,” and hurried out the door to my car.

And that’s when I noticed the man dressed all in black, large dark shades covering most of his face, watching me from a little gray car parked directly across the street. I stared for a moment, frozen, trying to determine if he really was watching me or if I was imagining it because of my current paranoid state.

He didn’t look away.

His window was rolled down. He had one arm resting on the door of the car. Of course I couldn’t see his eyes, but his head turned as I stepped up to my car.

He’s definitely watching me.

And then my brain made a big leap. He is the armored truck robber.

He saw my name on the tree trunk. He figured out who Eddie and I are. He’s come for his money.

Each thought sent a stab of fear to my heart.

It was a wild hunch. But I knew I was right.

I pulled open the car door and squeezed behind the wheel. I shut the door and locked it. My hand fumbled the key in the ignition. The key fell from my hand and dropped to the car floor.

I heard the man’s car start up across the street. Breathing hard, I swept my hand over the floor, found the key, and stabbed it into the ignition. My car was beeping insistently in my ears, telling me to strap on my seatbelt. But I didn’t have time. I had to get away.

I floored the gas pedal, and the car squealed away from the curb. I had to hit the brake hard for a stop sign at the corner.

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