Chapter 26

What's next?

Just go home

You finally pull yourself together enough to stand up and stumble to your front door. At least then you can clean up and try to recover from your ordeal. Your hopes are dashed when you realize the door is locked. All the doors are locked, and nobody's home. Your parents left the house in your care while they're on vacation, and they aren't coming back until the end of the summer. That's the whole reason you were able to hatch this stupid plan.

You're in the middle of trying to jimmy a window open when you hear a siren chirp behind you. You turn to see a pair of cops getting out of their vehicle and approaching you.