The Dead Come Calling by C. C. Wood

Author:C. C. Wood [Wood, C. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, horror
Publisher: Crystal Wilson
Published: 2016-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

The next morning, Mal and I stood against the wall in Jonelle’s room, watching as she argued with Audrey and Stony.

“I am perfectly fine, Mom,” Jonelle insisted. “I’ve lived alone for years and I’ll be fine by myself now.”

“Jonelle Leeanne Watson, I am your mother and I will stay with you until I’m satisfied that you’re going to be fine.”

“The doctor said I’m fine!” Jonelle cried. “He was just here and so were you. You heard him yourself.”

Audrey Watson crossed her arms over her chest.

Jonelle looked to me, her expression pleading but I just shrugged. I knew better than to go head-to-head with Audrey Watson when she’d dug in her heels.

“I’ll go with you,” Stony offered. “Make sure you both have everything you need.”

Audrey smiled sweetly at him. “Why, thank you, Stony. I appreciate the help. Do you think you could rustle up some duct tape for me before we leave the hospital?”

Mal made a choking noise and started coughing as he rushed from the room, likely to cover up the fact that he was laughing. Or possibly to escape any imminent bloodshed.

“God, Mom,” Jonelle groaned, plopping her butt on the bed. She was fully dressed and ready to go, just waiting on the paperwork to sign before she could leave.

“I’m worried about you, baby,” Audrey said, her voice soft and tremulous. “You didn’t see yourself last night. They brought you in and you were so pale and still. If it hadn’t been for the monitors, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you were breathing.”

Jonelle stopped arguing then.

Fifteen minutes later, Stony, Jonelle, and Audrey were piled in Audrey’s white Camaro and headed off to Jonelle’s little house as Mal and I waved from the parking lot.

“Think Stony will be all right?” I asked Mal as we climbed into my car.

“Yeah. The doctor said he’s back to normal.”

“I meant at Jonelle’s,” I explained.

Mal smiled. “Definitely. He told me he’s staying with her until all this is over.”

I stared at him with wide eyes. “Really? Jonelle agreed to this?”

Giving me a side-long look, Mal said, “Not exactly. But I know I would feel the same way if you had just been drugged. I wouldn’t want you to leave my sight.”

I didn’t point out that he had already decided I wasn’t supposed to be alone until the situation with the dark entity was resolved.

“Carissa will be here soon, we should probably get back to the house,” Mal suggested.

I realized I knew nothing about the woman who was flying in from Atlanta to help me. “Have you known her long?” I asked him.

“She’s been a close friend of my family for almost ten years,” he answered. “She’s worked with us a few times when we’ve filmed in Georgia and other nearby areas.”

His explanation did nothing to assuage my curiosity. “What’s she like?”

He shrugged. “Smart, reserved, and very talented. She’s the only medium I’ve met who can even come close to matching your abilities.”

“How old is she?” I wondered aloud.

“Two or three years older than you, I’d say.

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