Chapter 10

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Chapter 10

“She admitted to having my parents!” Nikki said as she slipped off her handcuffs. “Here, hand me the pocket knife. I’ll do my own foot cuffs,” she said as she took it from Kylie. Twist, twist, and click! “There we go! It’s open. Here Riley, I’ll get yours and then yours, Kylie.”
“Thanks,” Riley said as her feet were freed.
“That feels much better!” said Kylie. “So, how we going to get out of here?” she asked, cutting to the chase like always.
“Lets get a guard down here first. Hopefully they employ the dumb kind here. That would be very helpful. Now, if the guard is dumb, then we could somehow trick him into telling us some escape routes.”
“Just one question. How do we get one down here?” asked Riley.
“By making a racket, that’s how!” grinned Kylie. “That should be easy for you sis!”
“Sure,” Riley rolled her eyes. “Same to you. But now let’s make some noise!!” she yelled like a radio announcer. They started yelling loudly, saying random things that popped into their heads.
“Stop that racket!!” cried the guard.
“Come over here and make us!” challenged Nikki.
“No! What do you want?” he asked.
“You to come over here!” Nikki yelled back.
“No!”
“Yes!”
“Fine!” the guard shouted, stomping over to their cell. “What?” he shouted in Nikki’s face.
“Whoa! You need a tic-tac!” she coughed. “Your breath stinks!”
“Nikki, don’t be mean to the poor guard!” said Riley. She winked at him. “He’s probably a nice guy in a bad job, right?”
“Yeah, I never liked this job. Imprisoning young girls is not my favorite thing to do,” he sighed. “But it pays well and I need the money.”
“Well, If you don’t like keeping us prisoner, how ‘bout you tell us how to get out, and you can say that we somehow got our cuffs off and knocked you down, and then we’ll run away and be free and it wouldn’t be your fault.” Riley said, trying to get him to agree.
“Ummm, let me think. I would like to leave, and I could come with you for a little while. But then I would leave you and go live in a small town, where I could open up a bakery. Yeah, I think I will help you.” He said with a mysterious gleam in his eye. Kylie wasn’t sure if they should trust him.
“Yes! Oh thank you thank you thank you!!” Nikki said. “Sorry about he whole ‘bad breath’ thing. I was joking. It’s a line from a movie.”
“That’s okay. I forgive you.”
“So, we already got our cuffs off with our pocket knife. Now will you unlock the door? We should leave soon,” said Nikki, anxious to get on the road.
“Sure. Here we go!” he said as the cell door swung open.
The guard stepped in, and the door shut with a metallic clang sound behind him.
“What did you do that for?” asked Kylie, knowing that she was right in thinking that they couldn’t trust him.
“Ms. Arachne warned me about you!” he cried, jumping forward and grabbing Nikki. “Now, back you two!” he said, pointing a gun at Nikki. “I have her, and I’m taking her to the boss! So stand back, and she won’t get hurt!”
“Let me go!” Nikki demanded, trying to squirm away from him. “You disgust me, tricking us like that! Man! I can’t believe we trusted you! Ugh!” she grunted, twisting out of his grasp, and then in the process kicking him. “You worm!”
“Ouch!” he whined. “That hurt!”
“What, the comment or the kick?” asked Riley, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Both,” he whined again.
“Too bad, buster!” Kylie said, hitting him in the head and knocking him out. “Oops! I’m sorry did I hurt you? I think my hand slipped” she grinned at the unconscious form of the guard. “Let’s take his keycard and get out of here! It’s the perfect opportunity!”
“I guess you’re right. I’m going to miss the old moldy walls and our really comfortable cold floors, but I need to move on,” giggled Riley.
“We’ve got to move! Kylie, hit him again, for good measure. Then we’ll cuff and gag him. Kylie, would you like to do it?” said Nikki.
“It’d be my pleasure.” Kick! “Oops, my foot slipped on that patch of mold. My bad!” Kylie said. “The cuffs, my friend?”
“Here sis,” Riley handed her the hand and foot cuffs.
“Muchas gracias,” said Kylie as she snapped the cuffs on him.
“Sorry to be so rude and mean, but we need to go, and you were in our way,” Riley apologized, felling a little sad for the poor guard.
“See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya!” Kylie taunted, thumbing her nose at the guard. “Now, which way do we go?”