Lost in Ghost Town by Carder Stout

Author:Carder Stout
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Health Communications Inc
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight 1986, SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD

Having a car at St. Paul’s was strictly verboten. Not only were we not allowed to have cars, but we couldn’t even ride in them, barring some extraordinary circumstance—which I never witnessed in my three years there as a boarder. Even the handful of day students who lived in nearby Concord had to be dropped off and picked up by parents or older siblings. It was well known that having a car was an easy way to get booted from the school. Therefore, it was rare for anyone to smuggle one even remotely close to the well-manicured campus, but I’d decided that Yellow Cabs and Greyhounds were beneath me, so I took a risk and parked my car in the back of the Concord Hospital two miles away. My plan worked, and it stayed there undetected for the fall term. I hadn’t had the courage to take it out. I was waiting for the perfect moment, and soon, in the dead cold of winter, it presented itself.

I was in love, or at least as close to in love as I had ever been. I’d met a girl who thought the world of me. She was unlike any of the girls I’d met before. Her hair was jet black, and her eyes dark brown—a far cry from the country club blondes who usually turned my head. She was witty and awkward and bristling with ideas. In a matter of weeks, we were attached at the hip and spent much of our time scrawling down romantic notes on scraps of paper and slipping them into each other’s mailboxes.

Sally was long and lean with a hint of scoliosis in her spine. There was something hidden in her face, as if she held an important secret behind her eyes. She was far more interesting than the predictable trust funders at St. Paul’s who wore their Nantucket reds and Izod blues. Her sweaters were hand-knit by her mother, who lived in a sustainable home in the Vermont forest with no running water or electricity. Sally had earned her way into St. Paul’s. The school had discovered her untapped potential and offered her a full scholarship. That turned me on as well.

By winter term, we were planning a getaway. We’d decided to spend a weekend in Brookfield at my family’s farmhouse in the woods. Not only did we commandeer a bunch of psychedelic mushrooms, but there had been hints that the weekend might include the surrender of Sally’s virginity. Both events would be firsts and could possibly happen simultaneously. This both excited and terrified us, but nothing had been set in stone.

Sally had invited her best friend Hannah, and I had included my former roommate, Walter. Hannah and Walter were dating, but their relationship seemed to be unraveling, and they hoped a few nights in the country would patch it back together. The four of us spent a lot of time together at school: smoking cigarettes at the Community Center, hanging

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