Evil Heights, Book II: Monster in the House by Michael Swanson

Author:Michael Swanson [Swanson, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT: FAT LARRY

Lee hurried over to the window just in time to catch sight of the patrol car as it rounded the corner on the gravel path, up the tracks near the locomotive.

"Fat Larry!” he said excitedly. “Phoebe, that's what we heard!"

Phoebe still looked scared. Her fingers were all knotted together, and she'd begun to sniffle. There was no doubt from her face that she didn't believe what they had just experienced had been anything called a Fat Larry. She reached up with a finger and rubbed away the last of the tear's streak from her cheek, then let out with out a huge, shaky sigh.

Lee kept his head tucked back, just peeking with one eye. The patrol car was creeping along, going slowly. It made little noise other than the throb of its engine, the crunch of the gravel under the tires, and the crackly spattering of noise from its radio coming through the open windows. The four-door black and white had a red domed light on top and one of those long, whip antennas mounted on a spring and doubled over from the back bumper to the roof. As it turned, on the side door of the cruiser was visible a large gold star inside a circle, which read: Parson's County Sheriff.

And Lee recognized the car. No other patrol car in the county suffered from quite the same dramatic lean as did Fat Larry's. Exactly the same as the ticking clock in the stomach of the Peter Pan's crocodile was a dead give away of impending danger to Captain Hook, there wasn't a boy in all Parson's County that couldn't recognize this car from any distance due to its distinctive driver's side lean.

"Want to have some fun?” Lee's grin was in full form. His concern of a moment ago had evaporated with the appearance of a real evil.

Phoebe was still was far from over her anxiety. “Fun? What fun?"

He jumped over to her and grabbed her by the shoulders. “It's Fat Larry! He's tryin’ to sneak up on us. That's what we heard. It wasn't ghosts. It's this asshole Sheriff's Deputy. I tell you what we'll do. I'll slip out the back and run around to the other side where I can get a bead on him if he gets out of his car. When he gets here, you jump out and scream bloody murder, then run around the backside of the cars to the front where the engine is. We'll meet up there."

Lee moved to the door, preparing to jump down.

"Oh no!” Phoebe came back to life. “You're not leaving me here. I'm going where you go!” From the look on Phoebe's face, Lee knew there wasn't going to be any arguing about this, and he'd need to come up with another plan.

"O.K.” He thought quickly. “I've got another idea. Come on."

Lee jumped down, and turned back to catch Phoebe by her waist, helping her down. Together, they ran along, holding hands as they stayed on the side of the train opposite the patrol car.

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