Endless Night by Christie Agatha

Author:Christie, Agatha [Agatha, Christie,]
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Published: 2010-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

Jody opened her eyes, found herself on the back seat of the car, wondered for a moment where she was going, then remembered about Andy’s disappearance. Though she still felt groggy, she struggled to sit up.

Dad was behind the wheel. Sharon sat in the passenger seat, looking out the windows. From the radio came the quiet sound of Garth Brooks singing “The Dance.”

There wasn’t much traffic on the freeway. They seemed to be in a desert area, a few buildings off to the sides, but not many. This certainly wasn’t the outskirts of a city, but it didn’t look completely desolate, either.

“Where are we?”

“Coming up on Cabazon,” Dad said.

“Really?”

“You were out for a long time.”

Sharon said, “We were just talking about whether to wake you up. You wouldn’t want to miss the dinosaurs.”

Sharon was right; she would’ve hated to be asleep when they drove past the dinosaurs. “Oh, they’re cool,” she said.

“Have you ever stopped at them?”

“Yeah. A couple of times. We went into one of them.”

“You can go inside?” Sharon sounded surprised.

“Yeah. I don’t know if you still can. Didn’t they shut it down, Dad?”

“I think so. Seems to me there’d been some vandalism.”

“But we got in once, maybe about five or six years ago. There was a little souvenir shop right in the stomach of the apatosaurus. You could buy dinosaur coloring books, and rocks, and stuff. It was pretty junky, actually, and the guy who ran it was sort of funny.”

“It sounds neat, though,” Sharon said.

“Yeah, it was. You know, knowing you were way up high inside this gigantic monster.”

“There they are,” Dad said.

Off to the left, not far beyond the westbound lanes of the freeway, the two towering concrete creatures stood brightly lit against the night. They looked as if they might have wandered out of the desert and halted in shocked amazement to find themselves confronted by Interstate 10. The apatosaurus with its humped back and long neck looked gentle and perplexed. Maybe it wanted to turn around and hurry back into the wilds. The Tyrannosaurus rex, huge teeth bared, looked savage—looked ready to head for the freeway and tangle with the big rigs.

“Awesome,” Sharon muttered. “I remember how really weird it seemed, the first time I saw them. I couldn’t believe my eyes.”

“They look like they belong in a place like this,” Dad said.

“Yeah,” Jody said. “But like they’re out of place, too. Like they’re surprised to find themselves here.” She turned her head and watched the creatures shrink into the distance.

She realized that Andy must’ve come by here in the car with his uncle. Had he noticed the dinosaurs?

He could hardly miss them, she thought.

Being a guy, he was probably into dinosaurs and stuff like that.

Maybe they outgrow it, though, by the time they hit twelve.

She tried to remember if she’d seen any dinosaur models or pictures or books in his bedroom last night.

But when she thought about Andy’s bedroom, she could only see the door creeping open and the guy sneaking

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