Locker 2375 Chapter 11

Posted on | April 5, 2009 | No Comments

Locker 2375 c11

Joining the 5

The red light was flashing, like a neon sale sign, above the door of the principal’s office.

With a loud clinking sound, the type you hear when a bicycle chain needs oil, and the sucking of air almost like a half full balloon being let go, the door to the hidden chambers opened.

The chambers are not really hidden or chambers but the vault door did swing open revealing the offices of the principal, vice principal, curriculum coordinators and the staff room.

It is rare to see this door unlocked and even more rare to be able to see inside.

What was even stranger was the fact that the place was emptying faster than when the teachers are allowed to go on summer vacation.

I was about to stop and ask if Marco had brought ice cream for the school again, but just as I broke pace Omar tugged on my shirt collar, “no time to stop Max RUN!”

I don’t think I have ever run so fast.

Out the back doors we went, around the corner to the shaded space between the fields and swimming pool and then into the cafeteria.

Once in the cafeteria Omar put some change into the water machine, the one that has never worked, and pushed 5 of the choice buttons to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm.

Then, Omar gave the machine a good strong kick the sound you would expect from the door of a drawbridge being lowered could be heard coming from deep within the floor.

Then like magic the machine tilted and just visible under the machine was a steep staircase heading down under the cafeteria.

The rest of the group as if by instinct ducked their heads and quickly proceeded down the staircase.

“Max if you show anyone or tell anyone about any of this you will be stuck in this grade for the rest of your life”, Omar said looking at me with eyes that said he was serious.

I just nodded and followed Omar down the stairs, out of nowhere Ana came up behind me and pulled on a cord that made the water machine cover the hole.

When we reached the bottom what I was looking at was a room no larger than 10 meters by 20 meters with a big table off to one side, a few bean bag chairs in front of a huge TV hanging off the wall and a glass fronted fridge full of soda and what looked like cream stuffed cakes against the other wall.

“What is this place”, I asked looking around at the 5 students who I took to be this secret undercover team of student operatives.

Omar was about to answer when Brandon came out of the shadow beside the fridge eating a cream filled donut.

“Max I am glad we can finally talk to you about all this”, Brandon said wiping cream off of his face with the bottom of his shirt.

“For the last 18 months the group of us here have been working to uncover something odd here at the school”, Brandon said looking at the rest of the group.

Then as if they had been released from a spell the group became super relaxed and headed for the bean bags and the fridge.

“Max, individually at first very soon after we started coming to this new school, we each began to notice strange things going on that we could not totally explain and that to most people thought were just funny coincidences”, Brandon was now slowly pulling me over to the fridge out of the noisy area in front of the TV which was playing a rerun of Kim Possible.

“Brandon I have been noticing these things also”, I said.

“Ana and Kevin have been watching and working with you Max BUT until the locker contents moved and the toilet incident we were not sure if you were also part of this, well this phenomenon that seems to be focused on this school”, Brandon said with a little grin on his face.

“Boy did Ms. Shelley smell bad”, Brandon said with a chuckle.

“One by one the group you see here was drawn together and when we started to talk about some of the strange things happening, like the locker contents switching, we realized there was something going on”, Brandon said.

“Nathaniel found this place 3 weeks before school started when he was here on campus with his Mom”, Brandon took a good look around and continued.

“first he found the detention hole then the principal’s vault and Nathaniel could see that this was not your normal school and while he was trying to hide from the security guards he wandered into the cafeteria as it was being remodeled and fell through the floor onto the stairs and into this room” Brandon took a good look around.

“Of course there was a little fixing up to do, but we had this place to call our mission control center”, Brandon looked at me as if to ask if I had any questions.

“So how do I fit in”, I asked looking what I am sure was a dazed and confused expression.

Omar came out of know where and gently pulled me into a chair at the huge table that I am not sure how they ever got into the room as it appeared to be one solid piece of stone!

“Max you seem to be very close to where this phenomenon is coming from”, Omar was looking at me as if expecting an answer.

Just as I was about to open my mouth Sam came rushing over and dropped the detention manual on the table with a huge pounding echo like a basketball being tossed against a wall.

“I think I have found something we have overlooked” Sam said rather pleased with himself.

The 3rd to last page was missing!

All that was in the book was the top ½ of the title of the page, each page had a title, and this one looked like it said exit strategy.

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