Bramwell Valley by John Harold McCoy

Author:John Harold McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, humorous demons and devils, romance, scifi, young adult
Publisher: John Harold McCoy

Chapter Thirty-nine

AUBREY CRUMB AWOKE for the second time. The first time, she’d been roused by what sounded like some guy hollering and screaming down in the street outside, but when she got up and stumbled to the window, all she’d seen was crazy Joe Paul’s crappy old pickup tearing through the intersection at the Boulevard, and disappearing up Stillman Road. She figured she must have dreamed the hollering and screaming part.

This time, it sounded like somebody banging on something.

…probably dreaming that, too, she thought, drifting back to sleep.

Nope, there it was again… louder.

What, the…

Aubrey turned over and looked at the clock on the dresser. It was after one o’clock in the morning. She got out of bed, padded to her second-story bedroom window, and looked out, again.

Nothing… the bridge off to her right, the side of Louis’s store across the street, the intersection off to her left… deserted, like it was supposed to be at one o’clock in the morning.

She turned from the window, walked out of the bedroom, through the hall and into the front guest room. From the windows of the guest room she could look down on Meljac Lane. All seemed quiet in that direction too, though there were lights on in the Meljac and Clark houses across the way.

The phone in the living room downstairs rang. Aubrey scowled: people hollering, pickup trucks and things banging, phones ringing and what-have-you …at one o’clock in the morning!

She left the guest room, went through the hall and down the stairs, not bothering to turn on any lights. She’d lived in the house all her life, and could navigate its rooms and halls blindfolded.

The dim yellow glow from the street lamp out front shone through the big bay window of the living room. Aubrey shuffled across the worn carpet, and flopped down on the couch. She reached over the arm of the couch to the end table, and picked up the phone.

Before she finished the word, “Hello,” Sarah’s voice screamed through the receiver.

“Aubrey… I’ve lost them! I’ve lost…”

“Wha..?” Aubrey started to ask.

“My powers!” Sarah’s voice sounded frantic.

“Aubrey, I’ve lost my powers!”

Aubrey leaned back on the couch, sighing skeptically, wondering how much her sister had had to drink.

From the phone, Sarah’s voice pleaded, “Aubrey, are you there?”

Aubrey sighed again, sat up slowly, and said, “Ok, Sarah. Calm down. You haven’t lost your powers. That doesn’t happen. Just tell me what’s going on.”

Sarah spoke fast, sputtering, “I was levitating over the bed… just playing around…”

“Bed?” barked Aubrey. “What were you… slow down. I can’t understand…”

“… and I just … just suddenly, I just fell right on top of Harry. I almost broke his…”

Aubrey barked again, “Why were you levitating over Harry? What are you doing down there, Sarah?”

Sarah took a deep breath, then answered coolly, an edge to her voice, “I’m doing what we agreed… whatever it takes to bring him… Damn it, Aubrey, that’s not the point. Didn’t you hear what I said? My powers! I fell right out of the air.

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