Released by Megan Duncan

Author:Megan Duncan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: David_James Mobilism.org
ISBN: 9781461017721
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-03-22T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

We quickly settled in for a long day of driving and Taya insisted we play twenty questions to help pass the time. I was certain it was just a ploy for her to get to know more about my brother. However, Carter was quickly able to manipulate it, into a game of recaling significant details about the demons we had seen. He had not had a chance to detail much about the smal gremlin-like demons we had seen at the camp and he was chomping at the bit, so he had enlisted Taya to write the information down. As always she was eager to do so, and I noticed what use to annoy me about her, was sort of endearing. I could tel she realy liked Carter, maybe she had a soft spot for brainiacs. Who was I to judge?

“No, their blood was a weird dark green color wasn’t it?” Taya corrected Carter on the fact.

“Yeah, you're right. It looked like a thick sludge. Write that down Taya, oh, and don’t forget that they did start to retreat, so that shows signs of fear.”

“Got it.”

“There were about two feet tal, covered in that nasty scaly skin… hmm what else?”

Taya sat scribbling away before sticking the pencil in her mouth while she tried to remember other details.

They went back and forth like that for what seemed like hours. Max and I sat silently in the back seat, each of us slowly inching closer together until our thighs were touching intimately and I was resting my head on his shoulder staring out the window.

“Hey look! It’s Salt Lake.” I pointed out the window to the wide expanse of stil blue water. “We are almost half way now right?”

“Uh…yea. You two got the map back there? I think we are going to have to change interstates here at some point.” Max and I deciphered the map while Carter steadily made his way through the streets. We had to get off the interstate as it was taking too long to weave through the overabundance of abandoned and wrecked vehicles.

As we drove along, I couldn’t help but notice how the city stil retained a smal morsel of its beauty even after such a cataclysmic event. I admired the architecture in the buildings of the once bustling downtown metropolis and wondered if the city would ever be the same again. Would any city ever be the same again? Would we be able to do everything that Carter said we would? Could we realy help give the answer to stop what could very wel be the end of humanity? Questions continued to rattle through my head as we drove down the tree-lined city streets.

We stopped for lunch and to refuel after having made it farther south into Utah. This time Max had to siphon the gas and as I watched him fight the urge to vomit, I quietly prayed he would brush his teeth before trying to kiss me again. And then I wondered if we even had any toothpaste.

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