The Lola Chronicles (Book 2): A Day Without Dawn by Eaton Jillian

Author:Eaton, Jillian [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror | Vampires
Published: 2016-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Dear Lola

AFTER MAKING A DETOUR INTO town to stock up on water, food, and fuel for the four wheelers, we got back to the gym a little after four o’clock. Starving, I headed straight to my duffel bag where I kept a tidy stockpile of junk food. While everyone else did their thing I slipped out through a back door and sat cross-legged on the grass, drinking in the sun while I stuffed my face with potato chips.

The next fourteen hours were going to be the longest of my life. My nerves were already humming with anticipation. I felt the same way I had before I went off to face Angelique.

Antsy.

Nervous.

Terrified.

There was no telling what was waiting for us inside that farmhouse. Drinkers. Zombies. Monsters we’d never even dreamed about. I just hoped we weren’t too late. I think I could live with it if my dad was dead. It would destroy me, but it wouldn’t kill me. After I fell apart I would find a way to pick up the pieces, no matter what it took. I would find a way to keep surviving. For him. For Travis. For everyone we’d lost and were still going to lose.

But if he’d been turned into something else… If I looked into his eyes and found something less than human looking back at me… I didn’t know what I would do.

Crumpling the bag of chips I tossed it aside and opened my last box of animal crackers. Ever since I was a kid I’d always had a soft spot for the sugary cookies. The zebra was my favorite. Fishing around in the box until I found one, I popped the whole thing in my mouth and bit down with a satisfying crunch.

Sorry little guy. Better luck next time.

I was nibbling the legs off an elephant when the door creaked open and Rose stuck her head out.

“There you are,” she said, sounding relieved when she saw me leaning back against the warm brick wall of the gym. “I’ve been looking everywhere for you.”

“Have a seat.” I patted the grass beside me. “And an animal cracker.”

“Um, no thanks. I promised Ms. Siegel I’d help her with something. But I wanted to give you this first.” Extending her hand, she held out a neatly folded piece of white paper. “It was taped to the door by the playground,” she explained when I reached for the paper, my forehead creased in confusion.

“This is for me?”

“It has your name on it.”

So it did. Stomach clenching, I dropped the half-eaten elephant and slowly unfolded the paper. The last time someone had left me a note things hadn’t exactly ended all that well. But Angelique was dead, and even though she’d showed up in my dreams there was no way she could have written this.

Could she?

“What does it say?” asked Rose.

I read the note once. Twice. A third time. “It says…it says to go out to the bridge out behind the soccer fields.”

“There a bridge behind the soccer fields?”

“It’s out in the woods on one of the cross country trails.

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