Don't look Behind You by Lois Duncan

Author:Lois Duncan [Duncan, Lois]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Children/Young Adult Trade
Published: 2012-02-29T22:16:44+00:00

"What took you so long," he whispered as I slid into my seat. "You missed a lot of good stuff. The vampires fed that kid some blood, and now he's a vampire too. He just finished trying to murder his brother in the bathtub, but that didn't work, because the brother's dog attacked him. Now he's outside the window, scratching on the glass, trying to get somebody to let him in."

I gave a spontaneous shudder, which Larry misinterpreted.

"It is pretty cold in here with the air-conditioning so high."

"I'm not cold at all," I whispered, to no avail. Larry's arm came plunging down onto my shoulders as though it had been hanging suspended the whole time I was gone, and there it remained like a limp of living lead until the last vampire had been burned to a crisp, rammed through with a spike, or both.

It was after ten by the time the movie was over. When we left the theater it was no longer raining. There were puddles on the sidewalk and the street was filled with water, but the sky was clear and lighted by a pale, young moon.

"An hour ago it was pouring," I commented in surprise.

"That's how Florida is in the summertime," said Kim. "There's not a cloud in the sky, and a few minutes later, rain's coming down by the bucketful. Summer storms don't usually last very long here, but while they do, they're torrential."

"Was it different back in Virginia?" Abby asked slyly.

"Like I said before, I've never been in Virginia," I told her. I was grateful the drive to our house was not a long one. Even though Larry didn't try to put any moves on me in the car, I was uncomfortably aware of his presence in the seat beside me and the fact that our relationship had been subtly altered. Even worse was being enclosed with Abby. Having her turn out to be Kim's stepsister was the sort of ironic coincidence that I would have dubbed impossible if I'd seen it in a movie. I vowed that I'd never again disclose anything to anybody. You never knew when your words would come back to haunt you. The impossible did sometimes happen, and Abby was proof of that.

By the time we turned onto Lemon Lane, the ditch at the side of the road had become a fast-flowing river, churning white with foam. It poured through the culverts that ran under the driveways leading back to unseen houses and emerged as wild sprays of froth, leaping high in the moonlight like demented ghosts. Kim pulled the car carefully into our driveway and around the bend between the high banks of bushes, bringing it to a stop in front of the house. Back in this pocket of shadows, trees shut off the light from the sky as effectively as the undergrowth cut off the sight of the road. Darkness lay dense and heavy on either side of us, but the beam of Kim's headlights cut a path to the porch, and lights could be seen behind the living room windows.

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