Boding Evil by Linda L Barton

Author:Linda L Barton
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: horror, paranormal, horror ghosts, horror terror, short read, short shories

Chapter 6

The next few weeks passed without anything unusual happening. The school year had finally begun, so Jeff and Lori were glad to have something to take their minds off of the events of the summer.

Lori had wasted no time getting involved in the normal high school activities. Jeff, on the other hand, seemed to stay to himself.

“Hey, Jeff, why don’t you sign up for the basketball team? I bet you’re quick on your feet,” Rick Adams shouted across the hallway while Jeff was getting his books out of his locker for his next class.

“No, thanks; I don’t have the time.” Jeff had thought of joining the basketball team, but with everything that had happened the last few months he just wanted to stay to himself. For some strange reason, he felt something else was about to happen, and he wanted to be on alert.

“Man, you should join us. It would be a great way to get to know people,” Rick prodded.

Jeff knew that Rick was probably right, but he simply shrugged his shoulders and shut the locker door. “I need to get to class.”

Rick was about to push Jeff more but thought better of it. “Okay, it’s your loss. That just leaves more cheerleaders for me.”

Seeing the gleeful expression on Rick’s face caused Jeff to chuckle, “I’m sure you can handle them just fine.”

With a broad grin on his face and a swagger in his step, Jeff watched Rick walk toward his next class. Jeff had to admit that he liked Rick, but he had no desire to get involved in school activities or chasing cheerleaders at this time.

***

“I heard that you were invited to join the basketball team today but turned them down. I thought you loved to play basketball?” Lori slid into the seat next to Jeff on the school bus for the ride home.

“Yeah, but how did you hear about it?” He moved over to give Lori more room.

“Come on, you know there are no secrets in this small town,” Lori snickered while she struggled to balance her stack of books on her lap.

Jeff glanced over at her and rolled his eyes. That was one thing he had come to dislike. It seemed as though people would know of things even before you did.

“I kind of understand why you didn’t, though,” Lori met Jeff’s questioning gaze.

“It’s because you feel it too.” The color drained from Lori's face and was now replaced with a pale expression of fear.

Jeff sat transfixed, unsure of how to respond. He had felt a nagging fear of dread ever since the day he found the slaughtered pigs. Jeff had tried to push it aside as mere foolishness but was unsuccessful, and with each passing day, it only seemed to grow. Jeff was unable to put a finger on it, but he knew something was about to happen and it would be bad for his family.

Jeff was the first to look away. A sense of foreboding seemed to fill his soul, and Jeff did not want to frighten Lori any more than she already was.

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