Chapter 20: Too Little, Too Late

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Once Zac got off the city bus, he scanned his surroundings. Seeing no one present, he sighed with a smile on his face and closed his eyes for a brief moment. 

-Finally! Now that the coast is clear, maybe we can enter that shitty community service the way that I exited it there earlier. Hopefully people didn't notice when I was gone. So let's get inside before we get caught, Zac buddy.

Zac ran halfway around the building and still looked around behind it, still seeing children and adults placing boxes of food in the back of the trucks. Zac grinned viciously and said quietly, "Hmph!"

-To my surprise, I'm glad no one noticed me. I can't wait to get inside to untie Kayleb and take him to Mrs. A jus' to keep my hands clean, y'know.

Opening the back door, he entered the building and scanned the hallways sideways. He saw no one present. No one at all. Zac joyfully sighed.

-Okay, great!

He turned to the storage room door with his vicious smile on his face.

-Now let's go to the storage room, shall we, Zac buddy?!

He walked his way towards the door to the storage room. He then stood there and rubbed his palms up and down a couple times, excitedly smiling at the door. 

-Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Can't wait to get back inside it. Get ready, Kayleb! I'm gonna turn your ass in to keep my hands clean, broh. So here I come!

Once he opened the door though, he held the door wide open, broadening and twitching his eyes a bit. There he saw the bag lying on the floor and Kayleb's disappearance shocked Zac. He let go of the door knob, placed his hands on his head and moved his eyes a little sideways, putting his head down, leaning forward like a hunchback.

-No! This can't be! I thought for sure that I locked the door. That means…I'm now in big trouble. I thought people didn't notice that I had disappeared from this building. Great! Jus' great! You know what that means, don't ya, Zac buddy?! That means twenty-three more days of bein' grounded-no money, no video games-instead of video games. I mean, think 'bout that buddy.

"Ah-ha! There you are!" Kayleb's voice echoed behind him. "We got ya now, Zaccai! There's nowhere to run as Sam and I jus' caught ya red handed!"

"Ah!" Zac slowly turned around and saw Kayleb standing with his former customer-the one that Zac sold the fake phone to. He broadened his twitchy eyes a lot more when he saw him. He put his hands out, opened his mouth and leaned back a bit.

Sam glared at Zac. "You!"

-N-N-No way! Is that-?! 

Zac's heart suffered from memories of selling a fake product to his former customer at the alley last weekend.

-It can't be?! Jus' what the hell's he doin' at a place like this?! Huh?!

"Aaaahhh…" Sam finally said something, glaring at Zac with his eyes nearly closed. While he walked towards Zac, clenching his fists, Kayleb stood there and watched, also glaring at Zac. "I've been searchin' everywhere for ya for the past three days, and I finally found ya at last!"

As soon as Sam got close to Zac, Kayleb ran towards the end of the hallway. Sam pointed his finger at Zac and moved it back and forth as he got closer to Zac. "You tricked me! 'A now rare brand new dumbphone,' huh?! What a load of bullshit! I trusted you!"

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