Angela's Alien by Janet Taylor Lisle

Author:Janet Taylor Lisle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781453271872
Publisher: Open Road
Published: 2012-12-13T22:14:00+00:00

chapter ten

ANGELA. THERE COULD BE no doubt. Poco saw Angela’s dark hair falling smoothly to her shoulders. She saw the ruler-straight line of one of her cheeks. She saw the sophisticated tilt of her head, and her wary eyes caught out by the light. They were turned exactly in Poco’s direction. Then, Poco knew that Angela had seen her, was looking straight at her, cool and attentive. She’d been watching them all for some time, Poco thought, spying out from the tower of her new height. “Georgina, look!”

The face was gone. A mob of bodies eclipsed the spot where it had been. The light beam was hurled in another direction. And Poco was so short.

“Poco! What’s wrong?” Walter saw her jumping up.

“I thought I saw something.”

“Well, what?” Georgina looked at her angrily. “Stop leaping like that. You’re knocking into everyone.”

“I think I saw Angela. Over there.”

“Angela!” Georgina spun around. The crowd was still thick and chaotic, and though Georgina was taller than Poco and Walter, she was not yet the height of most of the adults. She could see no farther than a few feet. After some desperate leaps of her own, she pushed her way back to the dam’s high wall. Clambering up, she stood on the top.

“Can you see her?” Poco stood wide-eyed below.

“No.”

Walter said, “Call her name.”

Georgina yelled, “Angela!” But there was no answer. She climbed down, embarrassed.

“Wait,” she ordered. “Let’s just wait.”

They huddled to one side of the dam while the Skywatchers’ ranks thinned slowly into the parking lot. Five minutes went by, then another five. There was no sign of Angela or anyone like her.

Poco consulted her watch under the flashlight. It was after 10:15. They were already late. But Georgina still would not give up.

“She must have come through the woods like us,” she was saying. “It’s the only way from our side of town.”

“Not if you were driven,” Walter pointed out.

Into all their minds came the vision of Angela’s limousine, rippling through the dark like a piece of white satin.

“Come on,” Georgina cried. “Let’s check the parking lot.”

They ran across the dam and peered down, but most of the cars had already driven away. None of those left was white or long.

Poco said, “We have to go.”

“Oh, all right!” Georgina started back toward the stone steps. “All this fuss for nothing. I’m sure you made a mistake.”

“It looked like Angela’s face.”

“But why would Angela have come here?”

“I don’t know.”

“So, how did she look?” Walter asked.

“All lit up. She was watching us.”

“But why?” Georgina could not bear it.

Ignored by Angela for two solid weeks, and now, in the dark, to be spied upon? It was maddening!

More than that—it was strange. Georgina’s heart gave a skip of alarm. Poco felt nervous, too. “Come on, we have to go!” She grabbed Georgina’s arm. “Okay, okay. I’m sure it was nothing.”

“Nothing,” Poco agreed. “It wasn’t even her.”

“Of course not,” Walter said. “How could it have been?” Outright panic seemed now to descend, and they turned and ran headlong down the steps to the woods.

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