The Hollow by Verday Jessica

Author:Verday, Jessica [Verday, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance Speculative Fiction, art
ISBN: 1416978941
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2009-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

New Friends

Several of the Sleepy Hollow people were present at Van Tassel's, and, as usual, were doling out their wild and wonderful leaends.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

I barely made it home. The suspense was absolutely killing me. I alternated between a half run and a half walk that quickly left me gasping for air. I was so not in shape for this. Several times I was tempted to look at what was in my pocket, but then I would hear Caspian's words, and my promise to him, and the guilt stopped me.

When the front door finally came into view, I was extremely relieved. I ran up the steps to the porch, panting heavily, and anxiously searched my pants for the key. After fishing it out of my back pocket, I stuck it into the keyhole. Then the knob turned on its own and the door opened. Startled, I looked up into Mom's face.

"Oh good, you're ho- What's wrong with you?" she asked. "Were you running?"

My eyes immediately dropped to the ground. I couldn't exactly tell her I was meeting a boy in a graveyard. I took several gulps of air, trying to calm my breathing back down, but it wasn't helping.

"What happened?" Mom's voice was rising, and I put up a hand to try to stop her worry.

"Nothing's wrong," I gasped. "I just walked home… a little too quickly. I remembered… some homework… I have to finish."

"But it's Saturday."

My breathing started slowing to a somewhat normal level. "Mom… nobody wants to do homework on Sunday." I headed to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water before I flopped down onto a bar stool next to the table. I chussed the water as fast as I could.

"Careful," she warned. "You'll get sick if you drink that too fast."

I sat the now empty bottle down on the table and smiled wryly at her. She was soooo helpful. Feeling around in my pocket for the millionth time, I wondered again what the surprise could be as I ran my fingers over the soft edges. I glanced at the clock on the wall, and judged how quickly I could make an escape to my room. The curiosity really was going to kill me any second now.

"I'm glad you got my message about tonight, Abbey." Mom's voice interrupted my plans.

Message? Right Mom had left me a voice mail message at the bridge. I squirmed in my chair. I hadn't exactly listened to what she'd said.

I bluffed. "Yeah, I got your voice mail, but I had terrible reception at the bridge." I left it at that, hoping she would assume I hadn't heard the entire message because of the bad reception.

"You've been spending a lot of time at the bridge by yourself." She frowned. "I know it was your favorite spot to go with Kristen, but it's not healthy for you to be alone there all the time. Maybe you should see if any of your friends from school want to get together. We could plan something fun, like a girls' night out type of thing.

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