Chapter 134

The thing about stealing is that the hard part was never the taking. It was the getting away with it.

"Left, left, left!" Emma hisses beside me, her ponytail whipping across my face as we round the corner.

"I heard you the first time!" I snap back, tucking the folded test papers tighter against my chest as we sprint. The manila envelope crinkles with every stride and I want to scream at it to be quiet, but that would require slowing down, and slowing down is not something I can afford right now because two of Westbridge Academy's finest security personnel are thundering behind us and they are, unfortunately, more athletic than their faces suggested.

"They're gaining!" Emma breathes.

"Thank you, Emma, I would never have figured that out on my own."

She ignores my sarcasm, which honestly, after four years of friendship, she's gotten very good at. We skid around another corner and I catch the exit sign at the end of the hallway, green and glowing and bea