squeeze through and on the far side
was an empty field behind the mall
that took you back to the main road
and back to my house. A grown-up
couldn’t fit through the hole, but a
kid could. All my years of imagining
the life of a secret agent for myself
finally paid off. Now that I needed
an escape, I had one.
“Teddy, this way!” I yelled.
“No, it’s a dead end!”
“We can get through! Follow
me!”
He didn’t. I turned and ran into
the dead end. Teddy broke the other
way. Half the mall cops followed
him, half followed me. I got to the