Flyer by J. L. Wilson

Author:J. L. Wilson [Wilson, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Peter Pan; computer apps; high school romance; reunions
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

We all stared at Bell. It was Lightly who spoke first. “That’s crazy.”

“Peter wouldn’t have done that,” Dibs said. I could tell he had recovered his composure because he was eating again. “How could he?”

“It would be easy. My car was in the parking lot at high school. I suppose I went in to shower after baseball practice. I always did.”

“But he can’t just drop to the ground and fiddle with the underside of your car in the parking lot,” Totts pointed out. “There would be people all round there.”

“But he could pop the hood and mess with something inside,” Bell said grimly. “All you’d have to do on those old cars is reach in and pull out something. Don’t forget, Peter and I worked on that car together. He was a top-notch mechanic. It would be easy for him.”

“But you drove it,” Totts objected. “It started and drove fine. What did the cops say caused the accident?”

“A tire blew and we went into the ditch. I couldn’t control it.” Bell’s hand tightened on his glass.

I touched his arm. “It wasn’t your fault.”

“I never could figure that,” Dibs said, finally pushing away his plate. “You took great care of that car, Tom. It was like your baby. How could you blow a tire?”

“Ran over something in the road?” Lightly asked.

“All it would take is a screw in the back tire,” Dibs said, leaning back in his chair with a contented sigh. “You were on a gravel road filled with potholes. You hit one of those, and that would do it.”

“That’s still not saying somebody caused the accident,” Totts, ever the lawyer, said. “There’s a lot of ways you could just have an accident.”

“It was a convenient one,” Bell said. “You said it yourself. Everybody was worried about us. People forgot about Peter until a week or so later, when that body washed up. Or at least they didn’t worry about him right away.”

“And by then the trail was cold and he was long gone,” I said softly.

Totts shook his head. “No way. Peter didn’t run away. He got disoriented or something, he fell in the river, and he drowned. The police tracked his footsteps all the way to the river.”

“But—” I looked at Bell, expecting him to refute it. Instead he just shrugged.

“There’s no way to tell now, is there?” he said. “The authorities did the official ID from the dental charts and that was that.” He chomped on another bit of ice from his glass.

“Then what was that you told a reporter about looking for Shadow?” Lightly regarded Bell warily. “Sounded like you thought he was still alive.”

“Nah. I had to give them some story about why I was here besides the funeral. Otherwise the reporters would be bugging Wendy and trying to crash the service.”

It sounded plausible to me and it must have sounded okay to them, too, because the subject was dropped. Talk turned to getting caught up on what had happened since graduation and that kept us busy until almost ten o’clock when Dibs was the first one to push away from the table.

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