Can't Catch Me

Chapter 6

Corey and I bolted out of the fire excape just as another bang rang out through the corridor. I turned back as Mr Diggs locked the door as someone through their body against the door, making it bend inwards. "Go!" Mrs Charles called out to us. "Come on." Corey said pulling at my arm. We ran to the fire excape and Corey kicked the door open, triggering the alarm. Corey went through but I hesitated by the door. I turned back to find Mrs Charles and Mr Diggs both with weapons in their hands and Mrs Charles was trying to blow the door closed with wind. "Come on!" Corey shouted at me pulling me through the door.

We ran and ran, up and up and up until we reached the ladder that lead to the roof. We climed up it just as we heard footsteps on the platform behind us. I climbed up the ladder after Corey and as he reached to shut the cover, I gripped his arm. "Wait," I said quickly "I've got an idea." I pushed him out of the way as I grabbed the tops of the ladder rungs and set my hands on fire. As those burt through I closed my eyes and imagined my fire turning to liquid. I opened my eyes as lava pored from my hands instead of flames. It dripped all the way down the ladder and it melted it all. It flowed down to form a puddle of magma and it melted through the floor, level by level. I sat back up and pushed the cover back over the hole. I then put my hands arround the edges and melted them to the floor. I walked over to Corey who was standing at the coner of the roof staring out over the school. Suddenly a very horrible thought crossed my mind and refused to leave. "Corey..." I said quietly. "How are we going to get down off the roof without dying...?" Corey puffed out his cheeks and furrowed his eyebrows. "I was thinking the same thing." He admitted "And now that youve gone and burned the ladder we cant get down that way." I looked away and blushed. Of course its me who gets us captured of killed. "But, I have an idea on how might get down from here. ButI doubt you would like it..." As he explained his plan my eyes grew wide "You can't be serious." I said flabbergasted. "No way will that work!" "Trust me." He said so sure of himself "I can control shadows. All you have to do is hold on to me, I'll turn us into shadows, bring us to the floor, and volá! An excape fit for amazing people like us. Theres just one thing... you cant let go of me. At all. If you do, you'll stay as a shaddow and die. Got all that?" I looked at him in disbelief "Why on earth are you my friend?" I asked with a small laugh. I walked up to him and grabbed his hand. It was his turn to look at me in disbelief. "Im your...friend? When did this happen?" He asked. I laughed. "Get your head out of the shaddows." I said jokingly. "Lets get this over with." He looked at me with a slight twinkle in his eye. "Theres just one more thing I need you to do first..."