Blackout: Still Surviving by Boyd Craven III

Author:Boyd Craven III [Craven III, Boyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-09T22:00:00+00:00

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I took the direct route toward the homestead. Raider seemed as happy and as excited as I was, and I was pleased. I’d dated women in college, but none of them had ever made my heart flutter the way Jessica did. There was just something kind and natural about her that I was really interested in. Thinking about whether or not I should have tried to sneak a kiss in, but I knew the timing was bad, especially after her just breaking up with Lance. I usually read that kind of situation wrong anyway, so I didn’t have a lot of faith that I would've been right. I guess fear is what kept a lot of guys from asking girls out, or letting them know how they really felt. They were avoiding the feeling of rejection. I knew all about that, and growing up poor it was kinda something that I felt had been hung around my neck for my entire life.

Still, I remembered her smile and the way her eyes lit up, even though they squinted. I thought that as a large red pickup truck pulled out on the road behind me. I had half a second to look up when its engine started roaring, and it pulled up next to me. I eased off the gas and the red truck also did, and I looked to the side to see who the crazy bastard was that was acting like they wanted to play chicken with oncoming traffic. Sitting in the driver seat was the man that Raider had bitten, and two other men were in the truck too. They were the people I'd seen at the back door of the Barred Rooster the last time I'd made a delivery there. Ryan and Larry?

“Raider, get on the seat and get down,” I said to him, and put my right hand out to catch him as I slammed on the brakes.

The red truck shot ahead of me a good distance, but I saw the brake lights come on almost immediately. The bed of the pickup truck started swerving as the driver tried to power glide into a turn. I could smell the burned rubber, and each piston firing seemed to slow down in my ears. I checked the rearview mirror as the red truck finished its turn, and it was now facing me in my lane. Another truck went past the other way, a white one, and I realized that Lance hadn't gone too far from Jessica's after all. That truck did a much less graceful turn and ended up behind me.

Both the red truck and the white truck started toward me at almost the same accelerating rate of speed. If their fancy driving was meant to scare me, it sort of worked. Not completely, but sort of.

“Raider, hold on, buddy,” I said, letting go of him and stomping on the gas.

I was close enough to the red truck to see the driver's eyes grow wide. I was counting on him to lose his cool, but I wasn't going to let him hit me head on.

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