I just had to take advantage of Dick's name.....
''No fucking way, out of the question'' Amanda hissed annoyed. School had just ended and we had settled down under one of the trees in the school yard. I wanted to sneak into the school after dark and take a look at Dick's file, but I did not want to go by myself. I sighed and closed my eyes slightly, ''come on Manny! It's not like it's dangerous, I just want to sneak around. Make sure he's not a murderer or something..'' I pleaded. She rolled her eyes, ''fucks sake..'' she muttered.
All the other students where on their way out of the school's property, like any other normal pupil. I watched as the rest of our class walked out of the yard, they waved at us and left. The sun was perfectly placed in the middle of the sky, which made it unbearably hot. I dried the sweat of my forehead and waited for Amanda to give in, she always did in the end.
''So... it's not illegal or anything?'' She hesitated. Bingo. I smiled to myself, ''nope. And it'll take 20 minutes, tops!'' I kept the ball rolling. Amanda hit her fist to the ground and sighed dramatically, ''fine! You mental fucker, but if we get caught-'' ''I drugged you and made you come with me'' I cut her off. She nodded pleased, ''so we'll meet here around eleven thirty then?'' I planned, she agreed.
The chilly night air played with my hair as I stood outside the huge red brick building. The school looked creepier at night, long black windows and huge dark trees. It looked like there where people behind the windows, if you stared at them for a certain amount of time. I checked my watch again, 11:43.
''You fucker'' I whispered to myself. Just as I laid down my arm Amanda appeared. She came walking up from the school's entrance. She had an unpleasant look on her face. I waved and greeted her, ''can't believe I'm doing this'' she grunted unhappily. I smiled, ''so you're not curious at all?'' I asked, she thought for a second, ''not really, you're probably imagining it all. Like when you thought your neighbour was a shapeshifter or something...'' she replied, I sighed. ''He watched animal porn, talked to dogs and you should have seen the hair on his back! I still believe that pervert is an animal of some kind!'' I snickered. She rolled her eyes and started to walk towards the building.
''So genius, how do we get in?'' She had no faith. I sighed and pointed at one of the windows. It was on the left side of the building, our classroom. She nodded, ''okay, but how?'' She continued, still no faith. ''You'll see when we get there, miss moody''
We shuffled our way towards the window where one of the three windows was a bit open, like a centimetre open. There was a pencil stuck between the window and the bottom, which kept it open. I had done it while we were in class.
Amanda chuckled, ''nice job, MacGyver'' I smiled, ''shut up''
I pulled my fingers beneath the window and pushed it open. I grabbed the edge of the window and pushed myself up and through the window.
The classroom was dark and cold. It felt so weird to be here at night, seeing all the chairs empty.
''A little help here, Indiana Jones?'' Amanda cried out for help from under the window. ''Yeah yeah, just gonna grab my whip and I'll be right down'' I joked and walked over to the window. She had one leg through the window and one hand on the edge. ''Damn, Manny. You look pathetic from this view'' I laughed, ''shut up and help me'' she groaned. I sighed and gave her my hand and she pulled herself up. ''Wow, this is creepy'' she said as she got up. There was an uncomfortable silence over the room. ''So what now, Sherlock Holmes?'' Amanda spoke up, ''enough with the names! I'm thinking ...'' I replied. Amanda sat down behind the teachers desk. ''I feel powerful behind this desk, damn'' she laughed, I turned to her. I smiled, Amanda's smile turned into a frown. I looked questioning at her. ''What?'' I asked, she was doing something behind the desk. ''Don't know, there are three rooms. Two are open, but one has a lock. I helped Mister Hendricksen when he worked here-'' ''nerd'' ''shut up, And he never had a lock on any of these...'' Amanda sounded distant and stared at the desk. ''That's odd... What's in the other rooms?'' I asked, she opened them and said, ''the normal teacher stuff. Tape, pencils and papers'' I scratched my head and walked over to Amanda, and she was right. There was one room beneath the others who had a lock installed. And it did look new, I hadn't seen it before. ''So Mister Bond, can you pick it open?'' Amanda snickered and smiled at me. ''Last time, Manny! And no.. Haven't learned it, but I will....soon. We should go to the office and look at his files'' Manny nodded and agreed, we walked over to the door and opened it slowly. It made a small cracking sound and slid open. The hall was dark, but there was a dim light at the end of the hall to the left. Amanda pointed to the light with a hopeful look, I shook my head and pointed at the other direction. Which led us into the dark, ''of course'' she mumbled.
We walked quietly through the halls until Amanda decided to break it. ''What do you think the lights where?'' Amanda asked, ''I don't know, possibly the janitor'' I spoke as we turned around the corner. ''There's the office!'' Amanda pointed out, I nodded. The door had a window with a paper note written ''Office'' on it. I turned down the door knob and the door opened. ''How come that one's opened?'' Amanda asked confused as we walked in. ''Either faith-'' ''hardly'' Amanda cut me off, she wasn't a man of faith I tell you that. ''Or the janitor'' I ended, she nodded.
The office was as dark as the hall. It had a big brown desk with some tall metal boxes behind. I walked over to them and read their labels. ''Students'' ''Workers'' ''Teachers''
I opened the ''teacher''-labeled box. ''Is that open as well?'' Amanda sounded surprise, ''now it might be faith'' I replied, she chuckled.
The box had several files for every teacher. They where labeled and set in an alphabetic order. ''Got it'' I triumphed.
I sat down in one of the spinning chairs. Amanda placed herself next to me. ''Richard Ericksen'' was labeled on the front page in big fonts. I browsed through the first pages, there was a picture of Dick with his name, age, relationship status - surprisingly single, and info about his life and jobs.
What caught my attention was how much he had moved in the last few years. He had lived in 9 different places and had 14 separate jobs through out his hectic lifestyle. ''He has never been a teacher before..'' Amanda pointed out, ''what made him care for teaching?'' I added, Amanda shook her head. ''Who knows... Never married, no children, nothing about his family nix nothing nada. Still think nothing's weird?'' I asked her, she looked at me. ''Stop the sass, fine maybe there's something weird about him.'' she agreed, ''it kind of gave it away when he named himself 'Dick''' I chuckled, she laughed. ''I know who the fuck does that?'' She agreed. I stopped laughing and looked out the office window, something had caught my eye. I got up, there was a light coming this way. Amanda became silent. ''Shit'' I mumbled, ''close encounter!'' I continued. I got my phone out and snapped some pictures of his files and put it back in the box. I was about to shut it when I noticed another file. Mister Hendricksen's file, it was at the top of a bunch of other documents. ''Come on, Kat! We don't have time for this! The janitor is coming!'' Amanda hissed. I grabbed the file and closed the box. ''You can't bring it with you!'' She demanded, ''I don't have time to take pictures okay?!'' I argued back. She rolled her eyes. We walked quietly over to the office door and and looked out.
There was the janitor. He came strolling down the dark halls, lighting them up with his flashlight. He was tall and slender. He was in his thirties with dark and wavy hair, didn't look too bad. His face looked pale and tired, but his eyes looked awake and a bit scary.
He took his time walking through the hall, but he finally had turned around the corner and walked off. We slowly opened the door and sneaked out. Amanda locked the door quietly after us.
We had to walk much more quietly and slowly thanks to the fucking janitor.
As we finally turned the last corner into our classroom the janitor was gone and out of sight.
Amanda closed the door after us and we could finally breath out. ''That was fucking close, Kat'' Amanda stated, I chuckled. ''Was fun though!'' She glared at me, ''Spectacular'' she grunted.
She sat down in one of the chairs and folded her arms over her chest. ''What's next Nancy Drew?'' She continued with a hint of sass. I sighed, ''well, I think we should get out of here. We can continue tomorrow, Bess'' I added. She chuckled and got up. ''Fine then, just help me get out of that window'' she stated. ''You are pathetic, darling'' I laughed.
