Failed Devilry

I couldn't believe we had done it. My best friend and I had actually fooled the guards and hid inside the theme park after it had closed. Without a doubt, we had pulled off one of our craziest stunts posing as the daughters of the manager of the theme park. Although I was light skinned, tall and muscular while my best friend was dark skinned, short and scrawny, the guards did not give us a second thought when we reeled off our perfectly practised tale of how we had come to visit our father. They might have been too tired or perhaps even a bit tipsy but nevertheless our plan worked. 

Breathing heavily besides me, Nora was dripping with sweat. You see, she was not much of a risk taker unlike me. Describing our friendship was pretty easy, she was the goody two shoes and sometimes a bit of a milksop while I was the brazen and more adventurous one. Coaxing her into sneaking in with me was a bit of a hassle as Nora loved bringing up the worst case scenarios whenever I wanted to do something a bit cheeky. Like I said, she can be a bit of a sissy at times.

"What if -" I clapped my hand over her mouth motioning her to whisper as the theme park was ghost-quiet and if we were caught before we even did anything crazy, our whole shenanigan would go down the drain. "What if the manager decides to come out of his office right now? We will be doomed!" she said pointing to the tiny office lit up by bright fluorescent lights. I could see the manager, who was clad in a white shirt, hunched over on his desk looking like he was filling some paperwork. I shot Nora a glare and said "Oh for Pete's sake, Nora! Stop with these what if situations of yours! We will be fine, don't worry!" Seeing that she was feeling a bit nauseous, I reached into the back pocket of my denim jeans and handed her my box of travel sweets, "Here have a boiled candy, you are white as a sheet!" I said in a reassuring voice. Man, if this girl wets her pants, that would be the last straw.

The stench from the trash can we were hiding behind was getting stronger by the minute, for a moment I thought Nora was farting her nerves out but I peered inside the can and it turned out there was a dead mouse lying right in the middle of all the lollipop wrappers, popcorn bags and leftover nachos that were thrown away. Holy cheese, the eyes of this furry grey mouse were wide open too! Perfect cherry on the cake, am I right?

Suddenly, I heard a loud thump! I quickly turned around and saw that Nora had passed out flat on her face. Her hazel hair was covering her face and her hand was still clutching the box of travel sweets. Frantically looking around to see if anyone was coming, I crawled over to her on my knees. Laying her on her back again, I brushed her frizzy hair out of her face and pressed my index and middle finger on her neck to check for a pulse.

 There wasn't any

Now I'm no medic but I had watched enough survival videos to know how to revive a person. I immediately started giving her chest compressions, tears rolling down my dirt-stained face blaming myself for bringing her along with me when I knew she gets tensed up at situations like these. With all my might I pushed and pushed when all of a sudden, there was a blackout and the lamp above our heads switched off in a millisecond. I could hear footsteps behind me and my throat closed up, fearing for my life when a bright torch shined straight into my eyes and I was blinded. 

They had caught us.....