Down the Hole by Sally Six

Author:Sally Six [Six, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sally Six
Published: 2014-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The Joining

By that time his mom was coming to their area and he waved at her to stop where she was, she was about 25 feet to the right. He heard the bushes rustle and saw Barb’s coat when he looked to the left. “Gees,” he said to himself. “We all need some training at this sneaking around stuff.” Barb came a little closer and she saw him and Lysbeth. He motioned for her to stop also. He pointed towards the kids by the RVs.

Lysbeth told him. “I have an idea. We have to get to those kids and let them know we’re not bad guys.”

Brian hadn’t had time to say anything back at all when Lysbeth scooted away from him. She was out from behind the tree and yelled. “HELLO IN THE CAMP.”

The boy turned quickly as he was still trying to herd the other children into the camper behind them and shot wildly in Lysbeth’s and Brian’s direction.

Missing all of them in the woods, thank goodness.

“It’s alright. No one’s going to hurt you. We’re friendly.” She yelled.

From the camp the boy yelled. “How do we know that? Someone already said that and then killed my parents and my uncle and aunt. Then they robbed us of what they wanted and took off. They thought it was funny.”

Lysbeth could tell that he was all choked and crying as he was having a hard time talking. From inside the camper, she could hear someone calling. “Henry we’re scared.”

“Is that your name, Henry?”

“Honest Henry, we will help if we can. You see I am new to these people that I am with too. My granddad died on the ride out of McCall. These people found me and made me part of their family. We won’t hurt you or the other children.”

Lysbeth stepped out from behind the pine tree. Brian gasped as he couldn’t believe she would take such a chance with a scared kid.

“See Henry, it’s just me. I’m Lysbeth. Brian, Barb and his mom, Beulah, are riding to Washington.”

“I saw the bikes. That’s why I shot at you. I decided that I would shoot first and ask questions later this time.”

Henry lowered the pistol and Brian let his breath out. He thought Lysbeth was going to get herself shot. Henry then sat down at the picnic table and started to cry. The other children came boiling out of the camper and ran over to Henry. When they saw Lysbeth, they stopped talking as they had been asking Henry if he was okay.

“It’s okay kids, I’m Lysbeth. I am going to call my friends out of the trees now. Don’t be scared.”

Lysbeth called. “You can come out now.” She saw they were already coming out as she called. “Duh,” she thought to herself of course they heard.

The children watched as the strangers came out of the woods and they huddled together.

All four of the adults came over to the picnic table and sat down. The younger one who called herself Lysbeth introduced the other adults.

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