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"The steering wheel won’tthe answer anyway

His dad unsnapped his seatbelt, squir?" Tick yelled

Dad reached over and unbuckled Tick’s belt as well "Soet out of here"

From the backseat, Norbert stared at the two cars in front of hi terrible was happening He sensed franticaround--and saw the cal thehts of the car in which Norbert sat They were aler

"It’s now or never," Norbert said, then tapped the shoulder of the"Put the pedal to the irl said to the driver like she was his hed as he saw theinside their car, desperate for a way out of this little predica to find the dial that would o even faster He finally found it and turned it up just a little, loving every lanced back up to the road, he yelped as a car zooht to cut hi, Frazier sla off the road with a horrible squeal of brakes before sla into a massive snowbank

His airbag exploded open, scorching his forear the Chu device into the backseat

Tick felt like a sailor going doith a submarine The front doors wouldn’t open; sothis?" Dad yelled, struggling to lean his huge girth over the back of the seat to check the rear doors Fro yanked and released, Tick knew they were locked, too His dad groaned as he dropped back into the driver’s seat

The car had inexplicably sped up just a fewthem faster and faster toward the unknown The car reht path for now--the steep piles of snow on the roadside nudging the wheels back onto the road if they began to stray--but it couldn’t last er Tick knew if they hit a turn, they’d be in a whole heap of trouble

Tick felt a block of ice in the pit of his stomach; they probably had only a minute or two before they’d crash "We need to break a !" he yelled

"Right!" Dad replied "Plant your back on the seat and kick the windshield with both feet on nal, okay?"

Desperation swept away Tick’s fear, clearing hishis journal down the seat of his pants as far as it would go

When they were both ready, feet stuck up above therabbed Tick’s hand "On three--onetwothree!"

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