Lake Thirteen by Greg Herren

Author:Greg Herren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Homosexuality
ISBN: 9781602828940
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Cheer up, Rachel,” Logan said as he started the engine, winking at her. “There’s still plenty of time for Scotty to develop the symptoms of a brain tumor.”

“You’re such an asshole,” Rachel said absently, not bothering to even look up from fiddling with her phone. “I never said I wanted him to have a brain tumor. Besides, we all agreed that we had to rule out a medical cause for what’s happening, didn’t we?” She glanced over at me and winked. “But we haven’t ruled out schizophrenia.”

I smothered a grin and winked back at her before crossing my eyes and tipping my head, letting my tongue roll out and hang to the side.

Teresa smacked my leg. “Stop it,” she said, laughing.

I shrugged. “I figured a little laughter couldn’t hurt, could it? I mean, I’m the one who might be going crazy.”

Rachel had spent over an hour on the computer in the lodge’s game room, going from link to link as she searched for any articles on any website, anywhere, that would give a medical cause for what I was experiencing. After Carson and Logan had told us about the Tylers, I’d gone back to my cabin—walking on the road because I didn’t feel comfortable taking the shortcut through the woods by myself—to take another shower. I couldn’t explain it, but I just didn’t feel clean after our walk in the forest. When I’d gotten back, Logan and Carson were teasing Rachel mercilessly about her wish for me to have a brain tumor. Obviously, none of us really believed Rachel wanted that, but joking and teasing was a great way to relieve the tension we were all feeling.

“If you’re going crazy, we all are,” Carson commented from the front seat over the stereo, which was blaring a One Direction song.

“How reassuring—maybe we can all get rooms on the same floor at the mental hospital,” I said, leaning my head against the window glass as Logan started driving the SUV down the mountain. Teresa was sitting between Rachel and me, and she patted my leg as I touched the screen of my cell phone, waking it up. The word Searching…appeared in the upper left-hand corner as the little wheel spun slowly. After about a minute, No Signal replaced it.

I sighed and shoved it back into my shorts pocket.

At least when we got down to North Hollow, I’d be able to call or text Marc.

I looked back out the window as we headed down the mountain. I hadn’t really been paying a lot of attention when we’d driven up to the lodge the day before, and of course, it had been dark when we’d gone down to the cemetery last night. But it was really beautiful.

There were mountaintops visible in almost every direction I could look, some of them dusted with snow at the very top. Every once in a while, the shoulder of the road was almost nonexistent, and I could see over the guardrail, down the side of the mountain,

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