Flashback by Peter Grist

Author:Peter Grist
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

nineteen

Ed’s eyes opened suddenly, staring straight ahead. “Oh my God! You scared me half to death!” exclaimed Linda as she shrank back away from Ed. “Are you okay?”

Ed stared out the front screen at the now empty landscape. They were now just the other side of the train crossing, looking into the darkness of open country. “Ed, talk to me, are you okay?” she repeated. Slowly he turned towards her voice, but still not seeing her, his mind still back in the past.

“It wasn’t her” he mumbled.

“What? What do you mean it wasn’t her, wasn’t who?”

“It wasn’t her Linda, it wasn’t Gracie.” He said softly. “I saw him, the killer, I saw him drive into the hills with the body, I followed him. He dug a shallow grave, but it wasn’t Grace Benjamin, it was someone else, a white girl, the waitress was right, there’s more than one!”

“Oh no, please God no, not more of them!”

“It gets worse” he hesitated, “I don’t know if I should tell you or not but if we find them I guess you’ll know sooner or later.”

“Know what Ed? How can it be any worse for Christ sake?”

For the first time since coming round he looked into Linda’s big brown eyes. Reluctantly he said “I saw the girls head, long blonde hair, it had pigtails and ribbons…..but, but that was all, it was just a head. He’d cut it off Linda, she’d been decapitated!”

She leaned across the centre consul and embraced him, pulling him towards her. He was thankful as she wouldn’t see the tears rolling down his cheeks. He put his arms around her as best as the Jeep would allow, he could feel her sobbing quietly too. He couldn’t remember the last time he had cried, maybe when his mom had died many years ago, maybe not since the war. They sat like that for what seemed like forever, until the pain in their hearts subsided enough so that they could think straight again. Eventually, they pulled apart but held hands across the centre of the 4X4. Her dark skin contrasted with his lighter tan. Ed looked down, he thought they looked and felt good together. She did the same, gaining strength from the contact. Finally, she spoke.

“What are we going to do now, is there any point in going up there?” she asked.

“Yes!” he replied, “I want to see if I can find the place again while it’s still fresh in my head. We need to know where they are so we can bring them back. I also need to know I am not going crazy, but the main thing is we need to lead him back to the bodies, it’s the only way to prove it was him.”

“Okay, let’s go find them.”

She put her hand on the key in the ignition but didn’t turn it.

“Who was it Ed, you saw who the killer was didn’t you. Did you recognise him?”

He nodded slowly.

“Who?”

He told her the name of the killer.

“Oh!” she said. There wasn’t much surprise in her voice.

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