Tabernacle (Super Pulse Book 3) by Dave Conifer

Author:Dave Conifer [Conifer, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-04T22:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Robert, Albert, Gygax and Kelly, the elder half of the Medford Kids, ambled down the dirt road toward the lake one morning, a few minutes after picking their way through a breakfast of dried cranberries and water. So far all they’d talked about were Albert’s ideas on shifting their fishing time to later in the day, the only problem being that it would prevent them from eating dinner with the other campers. It would be worth it, they all agreed. Fishing at dusk would be more productive than at midday. They were sure of it.

They hadn’t brought in much of a haul so far. Hopefully the change would help. Otherwise, they all feared, there was a risk that the lake would be declared unfishable and they’d be transferred to more mundane jobs. Of course, with winter coming fast, their days on the lake were numbered anyway. It probably didn’t matter much what they did.

“What are we planning on doing about Allie, guys?” Kelly asked. She was referring, of course, to the younger sister of their friend, Ethan, who’d been killed during the escape from Medford. After being at Tabernacle for over a month, she still would not speak. Kelly’s question was a futile one, they all knew. The reality was that there was nothing to be done except coddle her and shower her with attention and affection, things which they were already doing. Sometimes it made Kelly feel better just to pay it some lip service.

“She’ll come around,” Robert said. “She’ll start talking. What else is she gonna’ do? Never talk again?”

It was what he always said, and Kelly didn’t like it. Robert’s take on Allie’s situation lacked compassion and empathy, but nobody else had a better idea. Gygax never said anything at all when it came up, probably because it reminded him of the best friend that he’d lost when Allie’s older brother was shot to death in the woods that day. Being responsible for the well-being of a younger sibling, a burden they all carried now, was a heavy load for teenagers who’d already lost parents and friends. Coming up with a cure for Allie was too much to ask of them.

“Hey, where’s Carly?” Albert asked when they’d reached the Transportation Garage by the lake and found it closed up. On most days Carly could be found under the hood or beneath the front-end of one of the vehicles, be it inside the Garage or out. But not today.

“Man!” Robert said. “I never knew they had so many trucks!” They were staring at what looked like a parking lot in the field behind the Garage. There were two tractor trailers, a U-Haul truck, nine or ten vans, and two boxy sedans that none of them could remember seeing on the road. All of them looked older than the Medford Kids themselves were.

“We,” corrected Kelly. “We’re part of this now.”

“Do these all run?” Robert asked incredulously.

“I know at least some of them do,” Kelly answered. “Anyway, what about Carly?”

“I saw her father last night in the Outhouse,” Gygax said.

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