The Lola Chronicles (Book 1): A Night Without Stars by Eaton Jillian

Author:Eaton, Jillian [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Vampires
Published: 2015-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Crash and Burn

On our way out of the apartment I gave Dad the cliff notes version of everything I knew. I told him about Angelique, although I left out the part about where she used my hand as a chew toy. I don’t know why. Partly because it was a little embarrassing, I guess. But mostly because I was afraid of what Dad would do if he found out I was now connected to one of the monsters in a way even I didn’t completely understand.

I’d watched a movie once about four friends on the run in a post-apocalyptic world. They’d been overrun by zombies instead of vampires, but it pretty much amounted to the same thing. Lots of dead people and screaming and blood.

In the movie the main character’s girlfriend gets infected, but she doesn’t tell anyone in the group because she knows they’ll leave her behind. Long story short the boyfriend sees the rash on her stomach and even though he loves her, even though she’s the most important person in his entire life, he still (spoiler alert) kicks her ass out of the car and leaves her at an abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere.

I really didn’t want to end up stranded at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.

Dad asked a lot of questions about Maximus. Where he had come from, what he was doing, how he knew so much. I didn’t have any answers. When Dad persisted I dropped my duffel bag on the floor of the lobby, threw my hands up in the air, and said, “I don’t know, okay? I don’t know anything else! He said vampires were attacking the town, he told me to head for the Poconos in the morning, and he gave me a gun. That’s it. THAT’S IT!”

I guess you could say the stress of the situation was getting to me. There were only so many things I could handle, and my father asking me question after question wasn’t one of them.

Dead bodies, yes.

Parental interference, no.

And there were plenty of dead bodies. The moment we stepped outside of the apartment complex we were surrounded by them.

I averted my eyes the best I could as I followed my dad down the middle of the street, but it was impossible to miss the woman laying face down on the sidewalk, her arms stretched out towards the body of a young child. And I couldn’t help but stare at a boy who very well could have gone to my high school. If he still had a face I probably would have recognized him.

It really had been a massacre, in every sense of the word. And I had no idea why – or how – my dad and I managed to survive. It gave me the slightest feeling of hope, though. If a drunk and a reckless teenager had made it through the night, surely other people had as well. Maybe they were in hiding like we had been, or maybe they’d already hit the road.

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