Secrets From Beyond: Survivor by David Benjamin

Author:David Benjamin [Benjamin, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Media Tie-In, Horror, Paranormal, Suspense, Ghosts, Mystery
Amazon: 0439202701
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 2000-09-02T05:00:00+00:00

He couldn't remember the rest of the words. He wondered how it finished.

He wished Marisa was around to ask.

He started to sing other songs to himself, anything to drown out the footsteps and the sound of objects falling around his room. His teeth chattered from the cold — and the fear. He buried himself under all the blankets and eventually fell asleep.

He dreamed that he and Jason were standing again at the window, hearing the noise of the approaching airplane. But this time when he looked outside, he saw the plane was coming right toward them. Jason bolted and tried to pull Cole along. Cole wouldn't move. He had to watch. His own death was coming right at him. He was ready for it.

Suddenly, he was being lifted, choking for breath. All the air was gone. The air was turning black.

Cole woke up with a hand around his neck. He was being pushed against his bedroom wall, fingers cutting off his airway. He fought for his life.

“Skazhi im, chto ya etogo ne delal!” Chernenko yelled, his face twisted in rage.

“I can't!” Cole sputtered, desperately clinging to consciousness. Make it stop, he prayed. Please make it stop.

Chernenko's grip tightened.

“Tolko ty mne mozhesh pomoch,” he insisted.

“I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU!” cole gasped. Make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!

Suddenly, Chernenko dropped Cole back into his bed.

“Ya nevinoven I ty dolzhen dokazat eto,” he said.

“I. don't. speak. Russian,” Cole tried to get across. “Nyet! Nyet!”

Cole felt something move under his bed. He looked down to find the burned man picking up the shirt that the flight attendant had torn. He began to try it on.

“Nyet!" Chernenko echoed. “Ya ne prestupnik.”

Cole wanted to keep him calm. He wanted to stop himself from shaking.

But he couldn't.

He remembered what Detective Brown had said — before, Chernenko had been saying "tell them I didn't do it.”

Maybe if he thinks I'm on his side, he'll leave me alone.

It was his only chance.

“I will help you,” he pleaded. “I will tell them you didn't do it. I will try to make them believe me.”

“Ya eshchyo vernus,” Chernenko said, stalking out of the room.

The burned man began to overturn Cole's bed — even though Cole was still in it. Cole sprung out at just the right time.

This was it. The breaking point. I can't take this anymore. I can't stay here. Cole looked at the clock — two AM.

I can't stand this alone.

He walked into his mom's room. He had sworn he'd never do it again, but now he needed to. There was nowhere else to go.

Lynn sensed him coming in. Whether she was asleep or awake, her mother sense kicked in.

“What is it?” she asked before Cole could say a word.

“Can I sleep in here tonight?”

“Of course you can.”

Cole pulled off some blankets and slept on the floor. Lynn studied him in the moon-black darkness, trying desperately to find a way to help.

The clock ticked on.

Gwen began to pound on the window and cry.

Cole and his mom lay still.

Neither of them slept.

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