Bad Bones by Graham Marks

Author:Graham Marks [Graham Marks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847155054
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2014-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

“Mom! Dad!” Horrific slasher-vid images flickered in his head. Remy, poor little nosy Remy ripped to pieces by coyotes, gouts of blood splashed all down her T-shirt, the old man smiling, his teeth and face with blood on them, Remy’s blood.

He ran for the door, which opened before he got there, his mom looking a mixture of puzzled and annoyed; she appeared to be fine, not a drop of blood anywhere on her. “Gabe, what on Earth’s the matter?”

“Mom, the blood… Where’s Remy? What’s happened to her?”

“Remy? Nothing’s happened, she’s at Janna’s, for a sleepover.” Gabe’s mom saw Stella and she smiled fleetingly in acknowledgement and looked back at her distraught son. “What’s going on, Gabe, why would you think the blood was anything to do with Remy? Your father cut his hand slicing a bagel, I was just dealing with it.”

“What? Janna’s? She’s at Janna’s?” The look on Gabe’s face was so intense you could almost see the question marks hanging over his head. “When did she go? That’s only a couple of blocks away … Saloma Avenue. OK, OK – look, I can’t explain right now, Mom. I can’t… I have to go.” He glanced at Stella. “We have to go…”

“What’s going on, Gabe? I’ve never seen you like this…” Gabe’s mom, fraught now, turned to Stella. “Has he taken something, did you give it to him?”

“No, Mrs Mason! No, I didn’t … he hasn’t.” Stella shook her head. “It’s nothing like that, honest.”

“Gotta go, Mom.” Gabe grabbed Stella’s hand and ran.

Halfway back to the car, Stella tried to slow him down. “Wait a second – what if Remy left the medallion here, Gabe?”

“If she’d left it here, he’d be here. That’s what he wants.”

Stella stopped and stood her ground. “Remy might’ve left it behind, and that man mightn’t have got here yet, Gabe. You don’t know, you haven’t looked.”

“I know my sister. Believe me, she’s got it with her. You stay and look if you want to, but I have to get to Janna’s…”

“OK, you’re right.” Stella ran to the driver’s side of her car. “Let’s go…”

As they drove away, Gabe’s phone picked up a call, his mom’s ringtone. He didn’t want to take it, but the look on his mom’s face as he’d left the kitchen made him realize he had to tell her something. He accepted the call.

“Yeah, Mom, look, it’s OK… No, I’m not high or anything like that, really. OK? No, no, I didn’t do anything… You’re just gonna have to trust me… Call the cops?” He looked at Stella, making an ‘I don’t know face’. She made a similar one back. “No, Mom, don’t do that… I’ll explain later.” Gabe cut the call and slumped back in his seat. “This has to be a nightmare. Any minute now I am going to wake up. It can’t be happening.”

“I really wish…” Stella slowed as they approached a junction.

“Straight across, and I think it’s the next right turn.”

And then there it was, Saloma Avenue, Remy’s best-friend-forever Janna’s house a couple of hundred metres down on the right.

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