Plastic Girl by Jessica Maison

Author:Jessica Maison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: climate, environment, young adult, adventure, sisters
Publisher: Wicked Tree Press
Published: 2020-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Day 2,392 – Sundown

Eva’s arm trembled but she held the revolver as steady as possible, glowering at Adam. The sound of the gunshot she had just fired still rang in her ears. She had missed, but not by much. She only had one bullet left now, but Adam knew she was capable of firing and aiming her weapon.

“I know you!” she shouted. “You left a little boy to die outside a gas station.”

“That boy was an idiot,” Adam sneered. His lip curled up on one side, revealing a discolored and jagged wolf-like canine, which made his face fearfully feral.

“That boy was probably part of this family you keep talking about. His brother too. If that’s how you treat family, I’m surprised you have any left,” Eva continued. Fear was different at the end of the world. She was still afraid to die as she stood facing a larger, stronger predator but she had been so close to death at so many times that fear wouldn’t stop her from goading this apex creep on. She needed him to act irrationally. “I think you just like to hurt other people.”

“Guilty.” Adam chuckled and strutted a few steps closer. “And I look forward to hurting you, red parka.” Adam’s eyes gleamed with a strange hunger that terrified Eva. The bear cub still chortled at her ankles.

“You aren’t going to hurt her,” Jacob growled.

Adam pointed his gun at Jacob. “And what exactly are you going to do about it, little man?”

ROAR!

Eva jumped and nearly fired the gun again. Adam kept his gun pointed at Jacob but jerked his face towards the woods. Heavy footfalls thudded toward them, branches cracking and falling in their wake.

“We need to get into the water now,” Eva whispered to Jacob while Adam’s back was turned.

Adam’s head turned back to the chortling bear cub. He aimed his gun at it. “Stupid idiots, you made that thing a baby!”

Eva’s eyes widened as Adam’s finger pressed his trigger. She had been wrong; he did have bullets. One of them slammed into the ground in front of the cub, blasting sand all over Eva and Jacob. She instinctually dove down to grab the cub, dropping her gun in the sand.

ROAR!

The bear barreled out of the woods, bounding over a few small bushes and onto the sand, its strong hind legs thrusting it closer and closer to its target. It snarled and grunted and huffed its way to the group, front legs leaping five human paces at a time, eyes laser-focused on the cub. Adam bolted out of the thundering beast’s path. Eva released the cub and scrambled toward the water out of the bear’s trajectory.

Jacob rushed to retrieve the fallen gun. The large bear was almost upon him.

“Jacob, watch out!”

Jacob looked up into the whites of the bear’s eyes. He dove out of the bear’s path, but the papa clipped him hard as it charged past. Jacob flew several feet and landed with a thud on the sand. He lay motionless, the gun beside him.

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