Misfits by Hunter Shea

Author:Hunter Shea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, supernatural, thriller, horror; gothic fantasy, dark fantasy, creepy stories
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Published: 2020-08-13T13:47:04+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Marnie couldn’t stop the fresh waves of guilt from pulling her under every time she looked at Chuck’s sling or the slashing bruise on Heidi’s cheek. Chuck’s own face was a black and purple collage. His sling was secured to his torso with a strap wrapped around his midsection. In a strange way, she was glad his beard hid the other lasting marks from his confrontation with the Melon Head.

They sat on the hood of Chuck’s car parked under the fluorescent lights in the parking lot outside the Shopwell supermarket. The store had just closed but lights still blazed inside as the workers set about cleaning. Marnie and her friends had been there an hour, never straying far from Chuck’s battered car. A hunk of cardboard was duct- taped to the back window. All was quiet now, but that could change in an instant. The doors were left open in case they had to jump inside and burn rubber.

Vent passed Marnie the forty ounce of Crazy Horse, wrapped in a brown paper bag that all but screamed there was booze inside. Crazy Horse cost a dollar a bottle and tasted like something you’d use to clean the floor of a mechanic’s garage. The malt liquor concoction packed enough punch to make it worth the pain. Marnie took a long pull, the dull buzz just starting to kick in.

It had been three days since Chuck and Heidi had been attacked. Classes had been suspended at the high school so the police could speak to every single student. Interrogate was more like it. They’d set up a so-called interview room in the gym, putting up partitions so several kids could be interviewed at the same time. The attack on the neighborhood had been deemed a wilding incident on a grander scale than the one that had made headlines in Central Park in New York a few years earlier. The residents hadn’t gotten a chance to make out who was tearing up their street and houses, but they were all pretty sure it had to be kids. Naturally, every teenager in Milbury was a suspect. Marnie’s interview had been short. She heard a cop say to another as she was leaving, “She looks like she can barely stand up straight. I don’t peg her for this.”

She’d walked out of the gym with the slow shuffle she’d adopted since leaving the hospital. Her body was mending, at least the parts that could mend, but mentally she still felt broken. She found her hand resting on her stomach off and on throughout the day, vacillating between phantom and real pain and loss.

“I still can’t believe you didn’t tell them,” Vent said. He threw a rock into the trees lining the lot.

“Like they’d believe us,” Chuck said. His voice was nasal. His nose hadn’t been broken but it was swollen. He was scheduled to go to the dentist the following week to get a fake tooth to replace the one that had been knocked out. It hadn’t been found.

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