SKIN (A 44 Chapters Novel Book 1) by BB Easton

Author:BB Easton [Easton, BB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Art By Easton
Published: 2017-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

The next day Lance and Knight were missing from the church parking lot again. Juliet didn’t come either because she said it was “bad for the baby.” The baby. Maybe she was going to keep it after all.

With no one to talk to, I sat on the railroad ties that lined the parking lot and played with the gravel. I hadn’t seen Lance or Knight before first period either, and I was starting to worry. Okay, I was totally worried. Was Lance okay? Was he in the hospital? Did his parents take one look at him and call the cops? Was Knight in jail?

I stamped my cigarette out and buried it under the little mountain of gravel I had amassed. As I walked back across the parking lot, one of my questions was answered. I saw Lance come flying around the side of the building like a bat out of hell. He was headed in the same direction I’d seen him come from the day before, and he was running so fast it was like he was being chased.

Lance didn’t run from shit, not even Ronald McKnight, and his pulverized face was proof. The only things I could think of that would have him hauling ass like that were a grizzly bear, a madman with a gun, or maybe the cops.

“Lance!” I shouted, jogging after him. “Lance! Wait up!”

He didn’t wait up though. Lance sprinted across the parking lot, bobbing and weaving through the sea of cars, and disappeared into the woods. When I got to the edge of the parking lot, I realized that he’d gone down a trail I didn’t even know was there. I followed it and found Lance, waiting for me on the other side, in someone’s backyard. We were in a neighborhood.

Breathing hard, I leaned over with my hands on my knees, and said, “What’s (gasp) wrong? Where (gasp) are you going?”

Lance was pacing back and forth with his hood pulled over his head. I couldn’t see the full extent of the damage Knight had done, but I could tell that his right eye was still definitely swollen shut.

“Somebody fucking narced on me!”

“What?”

Lance stopped pacing and faced me. “The assistant principal pulled me out of first period to tell me that they’d gotten an anonymous tip that I was carrying. I told her she couldn’t search me without a warrant, so the bitch left to call the school resource officer. I fucking bailed as soon as she was gone!”

“Shit. Lance, what are you gonna do?”

“I know I’m not just gonna sit there and wait to get fucking arrested!” Lance turned and stomped through the yard we were standing in toward the house.

“Who lives here?” I asked as he walked away, confused as shit.

“I fucking live here!” he yelled into the cool mid-morning air.

“Wait. What?”

I forced myself to follow him into the modest ranch house, but my mind was racing.

Lance lives here? Here. Two hundred yards from school. All those times I was scrounging for a place to hang out after school and.

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