Dark Star by R. T. Martin

Author:R. T. Martin [Martin, R. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Abduction, Action, Action & Adventure, Adventure, Adventure Story, Alien, Alien Abduction, Aliens, Darby Creek, Dark Star, Fiction, Hi-Lo, High School, Horror, Lerner Publishing Group, Midnight, Mystery, Occult, Paranormal, R. T. Martin, Scary, Supernatural, Supernatural Fiction, Survival, Teen, Teens, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Readers
ISBN: 9781512434859
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

11:15 p.m.

Claire couldn’t sit still. She was fidgety and restless. Penny still hadn’t come back, and the students were now oddly silent. Some of the red light around Claire started to flicker, the pulsing light dancing across the clearing. The meteor shower was supposed to begin soon, but the extra credit was the last thing on her mind. Something was wrong here. She should never have come. She would have gladly gone to Alien Wrath with Cooper rather than be up in these dark hills, surrounded by freaky pins that were handed out by someone she couldn’t trust.

“Does it seem quiet to you?” Cooper asked. They were back sitting on Emma’s blanket but were no longer touching the snacks. Claire was too nervous to eat, and it seemed that Cooper felt the same way.

“Yeah,” Claire agreed. “Everyone stopped talking.”

“Not everyone can keep a conversation up like you can, Cooper,” Emma said. “At some point most of us run out of things to say.”

“Do you still feel okay?” Claire asked, looking at the steady red light at the center of Emma’s star pin.

“Yes!” Emma said. “For the last time, I feel fine. It’s just a pin, and you’re nervous because it’s dark up here and all the stories about this place have gone to your head. There’s nothing wrong.”

“Why isn’t Penny back yet?” Claire tried to sound calmer than she felt.

“She probably is back. It’s dark. Any of these lights could be her.” Emma was getting annoyed, so Claire let the issue go.

She looked around and saw that the students were mostly still and quiet, all looking up toward the sky waiting for the lights to start flying. Mr. Petsky said on the bus that a few meteors would appear before midnight, but the majority would start hitting the atmosphere at twelve o’clock. It should start soon. So far, the only one they’d seen was the one that appeared shortly after Penny walked into the woods.

Two pulsing red lights caught Claire’s eye.

In the dark, Claire saw two students from another group rise and begin walking toward the woods. She tapped Cooper on the shoulder and pointed at them. They both watched until the pulsing lights disappeared behind the thick line of trees.

Claire looked back over toward Mr. Petsky. Should she tell him what she just saw? Even through the dark, she could see that Val was still sitting right next to him. She was hunched over looking at her left arm again. Just as Claire was about to say something to Cooper, he said, “Look,” and pointed toward the sky. Two more shooting stars streaked through the darkness.

“I’m going to talk to Mr. Petsky,” said Claire. “Something weird is going on.”

“I’ll come with you,” he said. “You coming, Emma?”

“No, I’m not going to contribute to your irrational beliefs,” she said. “I’ll be here when you get back.”

They walked over to their teacher, who was staring up at the sky with a blank look on his face, his red pin slowly glowing brighter and weaker in a steady rhythm.

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