Time Lapse by Rex Bolt

Author:Rex Bolt [Bolt, Rex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Wait a second. Hold on here. Pike was halfway down the stairs coming out the front of the library. But what was he thinking?

There’s no way Audrey rode back with him from Manhattan Beach any more, and then presented him with the binder paper information obviously, because he’d botched the whole thing up, and they never were an item.

Did that piece of paper even exist now? He’d stuck it in his desk drawer at home, and hadn’t opened the drawer in a while, and definitely not since he got home from his travels yesterday.

Heck, did that possibly mean I drove Hailey down there and she gave me all the same information?

He was extremely curious to find out what the story was, and whose handwriting was on the paper. If there was one.

But regardless of the confusion . . . the important thing to zero in on was that he had Mr. and Mrs. Milburn’s address from before they moved back to Beacon. If he remembered his conversation with Aubrey in the car (from previous reality when they did drive home from Mitch’s together) her parents would have been in their early 20’s when they lived in Chico.

Just a few years out of graduating from Hamilton, actually . . . So not much older than he was, which added another layer of weirdness to the set-up.

Pike got home around 3:30. His mom and brother and sister were in the kitchen decorating some kind of cake and they asked him if he wanted to help, which they knew would never happen, and Pike went upstairs and closed his door.

This was a good time to call Dani, it would be 4:30 out there Idaho, and he had some privacy.

But first . . . He opened that desk drawer, and there it was, though this time not a sheet of binder paper but an unlined piece of copy paper, folded in half. There were bits and pieces of information filled in, not nearly as much as Audrey’s had contained, and there were several question marks scattered throughout.

Pike had no idea what Hailey’s handwriting looked like, but it was hard not to suspect this was it.

Leaving that thought and the ramifications alone for the time being . . . he called Dani.

“Hey again,” she said. “I kind of wish you were out here, frankly.”

“Now why’s that?” Pike said.

“I don’t know, just a shoulder to vent on . . . so to speak . . . who might be the one person who completely understands me.”

“I miss you in that way too,” he said, “I won’t deny it . . . But how can you say I completely understand you, when another dude bites the dust.”

“Do you have to put it that way?”

“I looked it up, the basics . . . This guy Chuck, he had a heart attack, or drowned, or what?”

“I think so.”

“You think so? It said you tried to CPR him.”

“That’s true . . . Between you and me, I hoped it wouldn’t work.

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