DARK COUNTY by Kit Tinsley

Author:Kit Tinsley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: www.kit-tinsley.com
Published: 2014-01-15T23:00:00+00:00

5

His sleep that night was restless, and filled with awful dreams. He dreamt of Baz chasing him down the street with an axe. Crowds of people just stood and watched, almost complicit in their inaction.

Then he dreamt of his mother, they were on a boat together in the dream, and she fell overboard. As much as Paul fought to save her, something was fighting against him, dragging her down into the depths.

Then he dreamt of a cold dark place under the sea, ruled by unspeakable beings, cruel beings. He knew he shouldn’t be there. If they were to find him, he would be turned just like the tramp, yet he could not find his way home.

He woke to the sound of his alarm bleeping. He leant over and switched it off. It was seven in the morning, he had two hours to get some money off his mother, pack, and get the hell out of Skegness before Baz caught up with him, demanding either the money, the drugs or Paul’s blood.

He quickly got up, washed and dressed. He walked to the kitchen, expecting his mother to be reading the paper and drinking coffee. His mother had always been a creature of habit. She was always up at six-thirty and then she would read the papers and drink coffee. It was a ritual he had never known to be broken in his whole life. It was as certain as the seasons, or the tide of the sea.

Thinking of the sea scared him. Images from his nightmares flooded his mind. He worried for his mother’s safety. It was because of the dream of the boat trip. He brushed the feeling aside, assuming that there must be a logical explanation for his mother’s absence. He walked to her bedroom and gently knocked on the door.

‘Mum?’ he said. ‘Mum, are you okay?’

He waited, but no reply came.

He tried knocking once more, a little louder, but still there was silence from the other side of the door. Gently he pushed the door open, expecting to see the room dark and his mother asleep. The room, however, was light, and the bed was made. She had got up as normal, then where was she?

The papers, he thought, perhaps they hadn’t been delivered and she had gone down to the newsagents to get them. This was plausible, his mother was so set in her ways that if the papers weren’t there she would have to go and fetch them before she could get on with her day.

He looked at his watch. It was quarter past seven. How long would she be? He really didn’t have the time to wait for her, not today, he decided it was best that he headed to the newsagents with the hope of catching her on her way home. He took the bag he had packed with him, so he could be on the first train out of town.

The first thing that struck him when he got outside was the stillness of the air.

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