Return to Red Creek by Nathan Hystad

Author:Nathan Hystad [Hystad, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Woodbridge Press
Published: 2019-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

Trevor Hayes moved up to the edge of the bed, letting his feet hang until they hit the white tile floor. Taylor was a foot away, and they turned toward each other, knees almost touching.

“Tell me everything,” Taylor said again. “Don’t leave anything out.” She was getting excited, but not in a happy way. She could tell she was about to learn some important information about the shadow creature.

The boy ran a hand through his hair before speaking. “My dad left us high and dry a few years ago. He ran an accounting firm in Ohio where we lived, and Mom says he had sex with an employee. When he got caught, he tried to make it right. He spoiled me, bought me things to buy my love back, but I thought he was an asshole.

“Mom didn’t deserve that. She worked hard her whole life, but she was scared to do it on her own. I’m the only kid they had.” Trevor paused and looked up to the light, squinting his eyes. “He fired the woman he cheated with, and she sued his ass off. He lost everything, and Mom left him after finding out the affair had gone on for over two years.”

“That sucks. I’m sorry, Trevor,” Taylor said.

He shrugged and kept sharing his story. “It’s okay. They were never very happy.” He laughed now, as if he’d told a really funny joke. “My mom must be beside herself. She used to come visit me, you know. Every week. She never believed me either. She kept telling me how this place would make me better, how I’d stop seeing things that weren’t there.”

“It must be hard.” Taylor wasn’t sure if telling Trevor what he saw was real would help in any way, but she knew it was the right course of action.

“It isn’t easy. I’ve been here for two years. At first they put me in a normal room with a ceiling light fixture. It still came.” Trevor was shaking now.

Taylor wanted every part of the story. “Go back to the start.”

He sighed again, blinking quickly. “Dad screwed us over, and Mom took what she had hidden away in a separate bank and came out this way, looking for work. She got a job at the dealership in Gilden as a receptionist.” Trevor smiled at this. “She was so happy to get that phone call. She told me we were going to be fine, and that we didn’t need Dad anymore. I’d be able to graduate locally and go to college, and become a lawyer.” He laughed again.

“You still can,” Taylor assured him, and he stopped chuckling to himself.

“She wanted to live in Gilden, close to work, but there wasn’t much out there that she could afford. Only crappy apartments, and she didn’t want us to live in a box, she said. We needed a house and a yard. Maybe we’d get a dog.” He had such hopeful eyes. Taylor didn’t have to ask if they ever got that dog.

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