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“Don’t worry.” Jinxx said from the doorway. “We’ll figure out how to escape this.”

I looked around at the room I’d trashed and back at him. “It was an experiment.” I tried to reason.

“You’re in a destructive mood.” He nodded.

I sighed. He was right. I began to brood.

He punched my arm. “Second floor?” He grinned.

My sense of adventure returned and we began searching the rooms of the second floor. After clearing most of the floor I started to feel like there was no point.

“Found something!” He yelled, meeting me in the hallway with a piece of paper. He sighed when he looked at it. “21710.” He read and passed it to me.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” I thought aloud.

“There’s nothing else in that room.” He returned to searching the other rooms.

I turned the TV on in that room and tried a combination of channels, 217, 710, 171, 21, 10, for a moment I scanned every channel but nothing came up. I saved the number in my phone and returned to searching the second floor.

We got through the third floor and found a wheelbarrow filled with power tools. With renewed hope, I took a reciprocating saw back to a window on the first floor that had a crack in it. We tirelessly worked at the security bars until the window was cleared. I rammed a steel rod through the window and shouted in excitement as it shattered.

“I haven’t seen any traffic this entire time.” Jinxx noticed.

“Neither, but I’m so over this place.” I climbed out the window and shouted into the night air, sounding something like a cross between a werewolf and a frustrated drummer. I ran to the end of the block with Jinxx trailing along behind me. I triumphantly threw the steel rod in my hand ahead of me like a spear and shouted my best battle cry. I felt better than I had all night.

Until the steel bar stopped hurling through the air, hitting something right at the edge of the sidewalk. I stopped running and was struck dumbfounded.

“NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Jinxx screamed and kept running until he slammed shoulder first into an invisible barrier. He bounced backward, holding his shoulder. “WHAT THE FUCK?” He screamed, throwing his fist into the invisible wall repeatedly. “SONNOFABITCH!” He yelled, continuing to scream profanities and ram his fists into the wall.

Notes

♦ Chapter 23's title is from Heart Of Fire by Black Veil Brides
♦ 21710 is the house number in the Knives and Pens video
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