Helltown by Bates Jeremy

Author:Bates, Jeremy [Bates, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ghillinnein Books
Published: 2015-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

“Who will survive and what will be left of them?”

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

“They have guns,” Steve said. He had turned off the foyer light and was peering through the front window. The Jeep’s and utility coupe’s high beams allowed him to see in the black night clearly enough. The bookish man had retrieved a rifle from the car. The hard man had produced a machete—a goddamn machete—from where it had been tucked against the small of his back. The rain had begun to fall harder, but neither of them seemed to notice or care.

“Who are they, Steve?” Jenny said in a frightened voice. She stood a couple feet behind him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Why are they here? If they were lying about hearing the gunshots, how’d they know to come? What the hell’s going on?”

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Maybe we should, I don’t know, maybe we should—

“Shit.”

“What?”

“They’ve backed into the fog. I can’t see them anymore.”

“Wait—that’s good, right?” she said hopefully. “Maybe that means, maybe they’re going?”

“Without their car?”

“Well, what then? What are they doing then—”

“I don’t know!” Steve snapped.

“Steve, don’t yell. I’m scared, okay? I’m freaking terrified. Are we going to die? Are we going to die?”

“Jenny, shut up!”

“Don’t yell, Steve! Don’t!” He could hear her hyperventilating. “I, we, God, we need to call the police—”

“There’s no phone.”

“There has to be.”

She began fussing around the room, yanking open drawers, tossing boxes aside. Steve didn’t move from the window. He assumed the two men had retreated out of sight to converse privately. It seemed pointless, considering he couldn’t have heard them anyway. Maybe they thought he could read lips.

Jenny crossed the hallway to the dining room.

She screamed.

For a moment Steve was convinced she’d been shot. But when he turned, she was standing in the entranceway to the dining room, both hands covering her mouth. He went to her, put his arm around her shoulder, and led her away from the dead boy.

“What did you do, Steve?” she whispered, her eyes glistening with tears. “What did you and Noah do? That’s why they’re coming after us, isn’t it? They know you killed that boy, and now they’re going to kill us for payback.”

“That’s impossible, Jen. The boy died, it was an accident, the radiator fell on him, but that only happened ten minutes ago. The old man came home minutes later. He didn’t call anybody. Nobody called anybody. Nobody could have known.”

“Then why are they here?” She was whispering hoarsely.

“Go upstairs,” he told her. “Keep searching for the phone. You’re right. There has to be one. I must have overlooked it.”

Steve guided her toward the staircase. Jenny hesitated, then tromped up the steps, zombie-like. Steve didn’t believe he’d overlooked the phone, but if she didn’t do something to occupy her mind she was going to have a nervous breakdown right then and there.

He returned to the window, pulled the floral-patterned curtain aside, and peered outside.

Nothing but fog and rain.

What were they doing? he wondered. What could they be discussing

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