Life's A Beach by Claire Cook

Author:Claire Cook
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
Published: 2010-06-02T02:48:57.802000+00:00

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RILEY KEPT WATCHING ME AS WE ROLLED OUR SUITcases up the ramp toward the terminal. “This better be good,” I said into my cell phone. “You have no idea how comfortable those blue leather recliners were. And, let me tell you, that baggage guy got pretty ugly before he found our suitcases.” I covered the mouthpiece. “Everything’s fine,” I said to Riley. “Just a second, and I’ll fill you in.”

“What?” I said again after Geri finished telling me. Riley and I were back in the terminal now, and I slowed down when we came to a swarm of people milling around outside Legal Sea Foods. I was having a hard time focusing, since I was pretty much occupied by the fantasy that maybe I could scalp our ticket stubs before the plane took off. “LAX?” I imagined myself whispering into the crowd.

“Hello? Earth to Ginger,” my sister said into my ear. “What is your problem? Listen, you’ve got to get over to Cape Air ASAP. It’s in the same terminal—just head over to ticketing. Let me talk to Riley, okay?”

“How about if you tell me one more time first?”

“How about if you try listening for a change? All right. Some production assistant called to say Riley’s call time was eight AM tomorrow and said they’d fax over the location directions. I said we had the directions and a car was picking you up at LAX and taking you to the hotel. He said, ‘Oops.’ Which I eventually found out meant they’d completely forgotten you and Riley were heading out to LA.” Geri took a gulp of air. “You with me so far?”

“I think so.”

“Good. Okay, so apparently the shark resurfaced on the Cape over the weekend, and the producers got some permits pulled fast and they’ve been scrambling around to get everything down there so they can shoot before the shark takes off again.”

“They forgot about us?” I couldn’t believe it.

“Listen, get over yourself, will you? It could have been worse. You could have flown all the way out there, just to turn around and fly all the way back again.”

“But at least then we could have said we’d been to Hollywood.” My carry-on was slipping off the top of my suitcase, so I stopped to push it back up again. “And why don’t we just drive to the Cape?”

“Don’t you think Riley’s been through enough already for one day without having to come back to Marshbury and start all over again?”

“Riley? What about me? I’m right here next to him.” I looked over to make sure he was still there. He was.

“Do you see the ticket counter yet?”

I thought I could make out a single Cape Air sign at the end of the long row of counters. “Yeah, I think so, but—”

“Just give them your names. It’s all set. When you get to the Cape, a car will take you to the hotel, and the hotel will have a rental car waiting for you. I’ll fax you everything else you need.

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