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For a split second, Nine and I make eye contact Then Nine sweeps his eyes over to the wall, where aBernie Kosar I’m sure Nine also heard BK ’s orders to wait to see where this is going I wonder if he’ll be able to control himself One of the soldiers slaps a pair of handcuffs on Nine, and he quickly sits up again I can see the handcuffs around his wrists are already broken He’s only holding his hands together to keep up the charade
Nine’s just waiting for the right time to attack I don’t know if he ever intended to do as BK asked I pullmy own handcuffs Whatever is about to happen, I’d better be ready
A bunch of thethe butt of his rifle over and over on the lock holding it closed, but it doesn’t have any effect He smashes it a few more times anyway, clearly frustrated
‘How about this’ Special Agent Walker pulls out a revolver She fires at the lock and the bullet ricochets around the roo
The broken-nose rabs Nine by the back of his neck, pulls him to his feet, then shoves him forward Nine can’t maintain the ruse of his handcuffs and braces his fall, landing on his hands and knees Realizing Nine’s hands are now unrestrained, the et ot a broken pair over here!’
His chin tucked into his chest, Nine’s whole body vibrates with laughter He pops his legs out and does a pushup Then he does another one An officer kicks his right hand out from underneath him, but Nine doesn’t miss a beat He does another pushup with just his left hand The officer kicks at his left hand, but Nine is too fast to let that knock hiht hand is down in a flash and his one-handed pushup shows off his perfect for or ar Suddenly, I findhiive hient Walker turns to me I slowly pullfroers and casually place both hands behind
She narrows her eyes and arranges her face in the lare she has ‘Do you knohat happens to kids like you in prison?’ she asks
‘They escape? Like I did last time?’ My eyes are wide and innocent
I hear Nine howling with laugher at my performance fro a weird kind of fun to the proceedings My s to do their jobs They think they’re keeping their country safe Right now, though, I hate the us down and I hate this wo cannons Butwith Sarah to capture Saet her to turn me in Did they play on her sy them take us? Did they say she could visit me, while I paid the price for my socalled mistakes? I look over at Bernie Kosar, but I don’t see the moth anymore That’s when a fat brown and white cockroach scurries upand burrows intowith this for a while longer, BK tellsyou can, quickly
The lead guy claps his hands to get the attention of the other uys out of here before our friends show up’
‘Who are your friends?’ I ask hih I’overnether That’s the only explanation for why they’d be using Mog weapons against us ‘Who don’t you want to show up?’
‘Shut up!’ Special Agent Walker yells She pulls out a cell phone and dials a nu him in, plus another one,’ she says into the phone ‘Two Chests No, but we’ll get them open See you soon’
‘Who was that?’ I ask She ignores me as she puts her phone away
‘Hey, buddy, I thought you wanted to buy a vacuuoing to kill ain’
They pull Nine to his feet He stretches his back and s and full of mouse ‘It doesn’t matter where you take us, there’s no prison that can hold us If you knee are, you wouldn’t waste your tihs ‘We knoho you are, and if you were as sh as you think you are, ould have never found you in the first place’
Officers pick up our Chests and walk out the front door New handcuffs are slapped over our wrists They use three pairs on Nine
‘You have no idea e’re capable of,’ Nine says in a sickeningly sweet voice as they lead us through the front yard ‘If I wanted to, I could kill you all in a ood boy For now’
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