Spiral
Chapter Two
Steven was nervous. He had just woken up from a fitful sleep.
“Why would the government do this?” he wondered.
There was no turning back now. He put the CD in his pocket. Then the phone rang. Steven picked it up, and a voice answered: “The CIA knows you have the data. They’re coming, so we sent a man to pick you up. He will be there shortly.”
Steven was stunned, “But I left a virus so they couldn’t have-.” The phone died. Steven panicked, but there was no time to think. He stuffed his laptop and a few things into a backpack. A man suddenly burst into the bedroom. He was wearing a trenchcoat and had a mask covering his face.
“Steven, lets go”. Steven nodded.
“Do you have the CD?”
“Yeah it’s in my pocket.”
“Alright, we have to go… now!”
The man led him outside into the hallway. They were just about to exit through the front door when four heavily armored trucks appeared in the parking lot. “Follow me closely, and be careful,” the man said.
He grabbed Stevens arm and ran out the front. As they ran through the parking lot, they heard a yell, “Open fire!” The man threw Steven in the backseat of a white van, and jumped in the driver’s seat. Bullets pierced the back of the car. The man accelerated into the freeway, the agents in hot pursuit.
The man yelled to Steven, “We have to get them off our tracks.” The van swerved and drove straight for a commuter bridge. “Can you block this bridge after we cross?”
Steven replied: “Yeah, I think so. Hold on.”
Steven grabbed his laptop and hacked into the traffic control center, sending a command to close the bridge just as they crossed. The barriers began rising as the warning signals kept the agents stuck on the other side.
Silently, the pair kept on the freeway. Then they jumped off a road into another city Steven had never been to before. Finally, they arrived at a coffee shop. The man and Steve walked in. The man led Steven into the restrooms and went inside a stall where an out of order sign was placed.
He hit the flush, and Steven blinked. A door had opened right in front of them. They walked in. In the front sat a young lady behind the desk of a computer.
“Hello Steven,” she said, “it’s nice to finally meet you.”
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