The Quiet Girls by J.M. Hewitt

Author:J.M. Hewitt [J.M. Hewitt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786818768
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-11-12T18:30:00+00:00

She didn’t go far, she’d run for less than a minute, she figured, before the guilt set in. And was it guilt, or was it the sudden realisation that she couldn’t hear Hattie crying any longer?

She turned back to where she had left her sister alone.

The earth was dry, crumbling under her feet. The ground was split where no rain had fallen for weeks. Brambles snagged her ankles, growing in snake-like trails along the forest floor. Carrie stopped and turned in a full circle.

Am I lost?

‘Hattie!’ she called, an edge to her voice. ‘Hattie, this isn’t funny, come out now.’

There was no reply. No sound; even the birds were quiet. Carrie stopped. A familiar smell reached her on the hot air; coconuts; the scent of sunny days.

Hattie’s sun cream that their mother had made Carrie put on them both.

Carrie turned, to the left, to the right, but the scent was all around, enveloping, consuming.

‘Hattie?’ Carrie moved forward on legs that shook terribly. One step, two. With the third she fell to her knees. Frozen, statue-like. Nothing worked any longer; not her arms, not her legs. Her lungs were numb nothingness. She tried to call, to shout, to scream her sister’s name but nothing worked, nothing came out.

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