Dark Ride by Caroline Green

Author:Caroline Green [Green, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Love & Romance, Teen & Young Adult, Contemporary, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781848121386
Google: MUdTYgEACAAJ
Amazon: B0051NZXK8
Publisher: Piccadilly Press
Published: 2011-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Knowing

It was the hardest thing I’d ever had to do. As I told him what the old lady had said, his eyes were sort of pleading, like he didn’t want to hear the words, but when I did hesitate, he hurried me on.

I finished speaking and reached for his hand. He gripped mine so hard it hurt.

‘I dream about being trapped. I can hear Eva’s voice calling to me but I can’t reach her.’ He stared at the ground. Then he said, ‘So she’s dead too?’ as though it had suddenly just hit him.

He jumped to his feet, and squeezed the heels of his hands into his eyes. He was saying, ‘No, no, no,’ over and over again and was bent almost double, like someone had actually punched him. I could see the soft skin at the back of his neck and I put my arms round him and held him, feeling his body shaking against me, trying to block the pictures flooding in my mind. I was crying now too, not caring about anything any more. I just held on for ages until he became still and he pulled away. His face was tight and his dark eyes were bloodshot and puffy.

‘Luka, I’m so sorry,’ I said.

He wiped his face with a shaky hand. ‘I tried to go home,’ he said. ‘When I first... well, found myself in the fairground. But it was like something was pulling me back. I just couldn’t do it. Maybe I didn’t want to face it.’

He looked at me then with a desperate expression. ‘Why am I here and not her?’ he said. ‘Why have I come back?’

‘I don’t know,’ I said miserably. ‘I just don’t know.’

‘I feel like she’s here sometimes,’ he said and he lifted his chin a little as though daring me to mock him. ‘I can’t see her, but I feel... something.’

We were silent for a moment. I didn’t know what to say.

‘Come and sit for a minute,’ I said and, taking his hand, led him over to a low wall. I felt shy about touching him again, now the worst of the news was out, but held onto his hand anyway.

‘It doesn’t make any sense,’ he said. ‘She was a really good driver. She was always careful on that bend. There’s no way she’d have driven too fast... unless

‘Unless someone forced her off the road,’ I finished the thought. ‘But why?’

Luka reached into the pocket of his hoodie, which meant letting go of my hand.

‘I don’t know. But look, I found her camera,’ he said, pulling out a battered leather case with a long strap.

‘I went into the ghost train yesterday and found this wedged right near the back. It looks like someone tried to get it off her because the strap’s broken.’

I gently took the leather case from Luka’s fingers. He was right. I could see that the shoulder strap had been snapped, as though it had been pulled hard.

‘Have you tried turning it on?’ I said.

‘Battery’s dead,’ said Luka.

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