Dead and Buried_Where the Bodies Lie by Jenni M Rose

Author:Jenni M Rose [Rose, Jenni M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jenni M Rose
Published: 2017-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Happy heard Butch before she saw him. He called her name, his voice coming closer before he appeared at the door of the cruiser.

“Jesus, Happy. What the hell were you thinking?”

Despite his loud voice and angry frown, he pulled her out of the car and hugged her until she could barely breathe.

“He ain’t so bad,” Melinda commented as she sat in the cruiser next to where Happy had been sitting, checking her good nails. The creepy lady sat silently on Melinda’s other side while the blonde stood nervously at the back of the cruiser, holding her stomach and staring at the blood puddle.

Butch pushed her away and held her at arm’s length, his stern face glaring down at her.

“What are you doing down here?”

Happy shrugged. Did she tell him about Melinda and the other ladies?

“I don’t know,” she mumbled. That’s what she always said when she didn’t want to get in trouble.

“Happy,” Butch grabbed her by the upper arm and pulled her away from the cruiser for privacy. “You can’t just- “

He broke off when Happy began fighting him. His feet were almost in the blood puddle, his heels resting on the edge, and he was dragging her straight for it. She wriggled and kicked, pushing at him with her feet wherever she got the chance.

“Happy, stop,” he grunted as she kicked his shin. “What is going on with you?”

She planted her feet firmly outside of the puddle and pulled against him.

“Not in the blood,” she looked to him, desperation in her voice.

“What blood?” He looked down and then around the area where they were. Immediately, he let her go. “How’d you know there was blood here?”

She took a step away from him and then one more for good measure. When he stepped forward his heels tracked blood from the puddle with him, little half-moons stamped onto the road.

“It’s still there,” she whispered. “Living in the ground.”

“Happy, what aren’t you telling me?” Butch crouched down so they could be eye to eye. “I told you. You can always tell me if something’s going on. I’ll believe you.”

He had always said that, Happy remembered.

“Is there someone else here with you, honey?” He looked around and then whispered, “Have you been seeing ghosts again?”

Butch didn’t know that Happy saw ghosts every day. At the bus stop, the grocery store, they waited for her. Trying to get her attention or asking her questions. She’d even seen a ghost that was a baby, barely old enough to walk, sitting on the floor at the doctor’s office. It just sat there crying, waiting for someone to pick him up. Of course, no one ever did because he was dead and no one could see him.

“Honey? Is there someone with you?”

“Go on, girl,” Melinda waved at her from the cruiser.

“There’s ah,” she faltered, looking between the women and Butch. “There’s some ladies here.”

“How many?”

“Three.”

“And what do the ladies want?”

Happy shrugged. “Melinda just said we had to walk this way.”

“Who’s Melinda?”

“She said she had a blood spot too.

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