Student Body (Nightmare Hall) by Diane Hoh

Author:Diane Hoh [Hoh, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480421738
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-08-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

THE FIRST THING I was aware of was Jessica Vogt’s voice saying, “Tory, wake up, wake up!” Jessica lived at Nightmare Hall. I couldn’t understand why Jessica, who didn’t live in my dorm, was telling me to wake up. If anyone was going to wake me up, it should be Nat, my roommate, shouldn’t it?

What was Jessica Vogt doing in my room?

Before that question was answered for me, I realized that her boyfriend, Ian Banion, was with her, because I heard him say, “I checked out her car. It must have overheated.” A flashlight played around my head. “The steam must have burned her when she opened the hood. Look at her face.”

When I opened my eyes, I saw him standing over me, and Jess kneeling by my side.

Where was I? I peered around in the darkness.

Ian’s words sank in as I hauled myself up to lean on my elbows. Overheating? “My car isn’t on fire?”

“No. And please don’t mention the word fire,” Ian cautioned. “After that blaze at the park the other night, that word all by itself makes people nervous. But no, your car wasn’t on fire. You thought it was?”

I nodded as Jess helped me to my feet and I saw that we were in front of Nightingale Hall. The lawn and the house and the oak trees and the gravel driveway swam around me like a carousel, making me dizzy.

“Radiator must have a leak,” Ian added. “Not a drop of water in it.”

“No, that’s wrong,” I said in a surprisingly firm voice. “I just had them check it at the gas station on Wednesday. I took it to Griff’s in town. They said everything was fine.”

Ian shrugged. “Well, it’s not fine now. I’ll put some water in it, but you’d be better off not trying to drive it. Could do more damage. We can take you back to campus. I’ll call Griff’s for you, and they can come and get it.”

“I don’t see how they could have missed a radiator leak,” I groused. But at least the car hadn’t been on fire.

“Did you fall, Tory?” Jess asked. “This ground is so rocky. You have to be careful.”

I couldn’t remember how I’d ended up on the ground. But my temple hurt, and I put my hand to it. It came away sticky with blood.

“I think,” Jess said, “that Tory should come into the house with us. Mrs. Coates will have something to put on her face, to stop the pain.” Peering into my face, she added, “I didn’t know radiator steam could do that much damage.”

I should have said, It can’t. The radiator had some help from the tanning capsule. But I didn’t. Because I’d have had to explain, and I didn’t feel like it. They’d never understand. I was having trouble myself, trying to remember why we’d gone into that stupid tanning salon in the first place. Oh, yeah, Mindy. To keep Mindy occupied so she wouldn’t spill her guts. I couldn’t very well tell Jess and Ian that, could I? So I said nothing.

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