“That moment we’ve been preparing for… Well it’s here!” Skeeter ran through the kitchen, his tennis shoes screeching across the linoleum floor. I turned up the volume on the police scanner, fixed the antenna a bit to get rid of the static distorting the dispatcher’s words, leaned down, folded my arms on the cabinet and listened the best I could.
“Shhhhhhh!” I turned back to him. His eyes wide, he was nearly jumping up and down. I couldn’t tell if it was from the excitement of finally getting to try out our newest invention or if it was from the X-citement we’d been cooking up in the basement.
“Yeah little brother, they’re coming alright.” I figured they were still a good ten minutes away seeing as they had to find our exact location. That’s one reason we chose to move out here in the middle of nowhere. What’s that old saying? “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Well…if nobody can see us, are we really here? Made sense to me.
I waved my hands in front of my face and laughed at Skeeter. “You can’t see me!” He started to do the same but stopped to pick a scab on his cheek and became distracted when it started to bleed.
“Flip the switch, dummy!” I yelled, realizing time was running out. He looked as if he just won an Oscar. “Me? You’re letting me do it?” His tone was now a little emotional. Annoyed, I pushed him out of the way and did it myself.
The house began to shake as the curtains of grass and greenery covered the home, concealing us from law enforcement. It rattled and clanked and then it began to grind to a halt. Our cover was blown, literally! The gear froze and left the top part of our lab exposed.
“Freeze… Get down on the ground! Put your hands behind your head….And for goodness sakes boy, wipe that white powder off your nose!”
With my face pressed down against the floor, I struggled to turn my head to look in Skeeter’s direction. “You just had to have a window in your room.” The lonely window allowed the breach.
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