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Maggie kne to swear She supposed every kid did, but back when she and Mandy Hunt were in aed each other to co you could possibly say They started with "you are a pus-dripping donkey anus," and worked their way up froot extra points if you could say it like you actually a else But h to express exactly how she felt about the bank vault door It was proving to her so she&039;d suspected but never experienced before: there were li eye socket of a !" she screaood way to get her fingers around its edge because it sat flush with the wall The hinges were on the inside, so she couldn&039;t just tear those off, either She tried pounding her way through it with her fists It ress of some kind, in that she had seriously dented the rapher!"

After about five ress She had put a three-inch deep dimple in the surface of the door It would take hours and hours to get through the door like that By the time she did, every cop in toould be down there with her, probably shooting her repeatedly in the back

"This isn&039;t fair!" she shouted, and her words echoed in the marble basement that housed the vault When the echoes died away, silence returned - silence, except for the sound of police sirens wailing away upstairs

She cursed a few ave up There had to be easier ways to getan eye out for anyone waiting for her with a shotgun The bank lobby was e off the walls, throeird shadows across the le person to be found Even the teller with the one - she probably ran away the second Maggie headed down the stairs

Maggie took a deep breath Then she turned around and looked outside Through the revolving doors she could see the street A line of police cars stood out there, their lights whirling angrily Men in uniforuns All the guns were pointing at her

"Crap," she said, which wasn&039;t very inventive but it expressed her emotions perfectly She started to run back toward the stairs - lass doors shattered and so into the room It hit one of the ATM ie picked it up It looked like a spray can of whipped cream - except it was painted a flat black There were holes all down its sides As she studied it, bright yellow sht - even as her throat started to close up She wasn&039;t invulnerable to tear gas, apparently She turned and threw the grenade back out through the shattered glass doors and s and crackling behind her She turned and saw the ATM that the grenade had hit The screen was shattered, exposing theand circuit boards and a security ca into life inside the ie felt like palht Everyone uses the ATMs these days for cash withdrawals The teller had told her asaround and kicked the ATM hard It fell to pieces andout all over the floor Sorabbed asthem inside her backpack There were a lot more of them than she&039;d expected and she didn&039;t have tiot crumpled up in the pack but it didn&039;t matter It was aret Gill," someone said, their voice amplified by a bullhorn It was the cops "We want to end this peacefully with no one getting hurt Your brother is on the way - he says he wants to talk to you before we take you into custody"

Maggie stopped what she was doing and looked up, as if Brent would be right there in front of her "Crap," she said again She had taken too long