Secrets of New Forest Academy by Tyler Whitesides

Author:Tyler Whitesides [Whitesides, Tyler ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, janitors
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

“Come on, now.”

Spencer awoke to a soft click. He was lying in his new bed, surrounded by the boys of the brown team. Dez was snoring in the bunk below him.

Spencer lay very still. Had he imagined the noise? It sounded like a door opening. But maybe it was just the heater clicking on. Or maybe he had dreamt it.

How had he fallen asleep? Spencer had been determined to stay awake in case Slick tried to enter the brown team’s dorm, but fatigue had overwhelmed him.

Now the heater clicked on, providing a soft background hum and proving to Spencer that the first sound he’d heard was something else. Spencer ducked his head under his blanket and hit the glow button on his watch.

2:18 a.m.

Using the glow like a flashlight, Spencer searched through the sheets. It was there when he fell asleep ...

No sooner did he find what he was looking for than Spencer’s covers were suddenly ripped away, his sheet slipping to the floor. Spencer let out a sharp cry and rolled over. Slick stood on the bunk ladder, a short-handled dirty mop pointed directly at Spencer.

“Go ahead,” the janitor said. “Give another little girly scream. Every boy in this room is sleeping on fifty dollars. Fifty dollars that I gave them after dinner if they promised to sleep through the night, no matter what kind of ruckus they heard.”

Spencer slid back against the wall. Fifty bucks? That was the going rate? He glared at the brown team members, their faces down in their pillows, pretending to sleep on. Below, Dez’s snoring had ceased. These scumbags were even worse than Spencer had suspected! If they’d sell out a fellow student, there was no telling what else they might do.

“Come on, now,” Slick whispered. “You’re going to come with me, and we’ll talk ’bout that package.”

He ordered Spencer down from the top bunk. The boy dropped barefoot onto the chill wood floor. Slick’s hand wrapped around Spencer’s neck like an iron clamp, and the janitor dragged the boy to the doorway.

Spencer kept his head down as they entered the hall, letting Slick drag him without resistance. Spencer’s heart was hammering in his ears. Each thump told him to pull away and run. But he forced himself to wait for the right moment. He might only have one chance to make a good escape.

They were almost outside when Spencer saw what he was looking for. Instantly, he pulled away. Slick let out a surprised gasp as the boy slipped easily through his fingers. Spencer reached the wall and turned, showing Slick the latex glove he had slipped on when he ducked under the blankets.

Slick shifted his mop, preparing to ensnare Spencer, whose glove would be useless against the Glopified strings. But the janitor hesitated as Spencer reached for something on the wall.

“You might be able to pay off the brown team,” Spencer said. “But it’s going to get expensive when everyone else wakes up.”

Then, for the second time in a week, Spencer pulled the fire alarm.

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