Tremble by Addison Moore

Author:Addison Moore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Addison Moore
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Peril

Sunday after church, when Carly and Carson offer to hang out and drive me home, I don’t hesitate to take them up on the offer. If I have to listen to Tad balk about his ingrown toenail for another minute, I’m going heave al over his newly cleaned upholstery. Besides, I’m hoping I could get them to drop me off at the bowling al ey, so I can tel Logan al about Briel e. It’s something I want to share with him in person.

Carson and Carly are both real y nice. I guess Carson has total y overlooked that whole drama thing with the spiked lemonade. She said it was no big deal, and it wasn’t the first time she was cal ed out on something stupid like that. She even apologized for my accidental foray into drunken debauchery.

They sit in the front seat and chatter amongst themselves on the drive home. I try to interject an opinion or share a thought, but mostly I’m overlooked.

“So where we going?” I ask as Carson turns down a dirt road that looks pretty endless. “You can just drop me off at the bowling al ey. I know you guys live on the other side, so it’s no big deal. Gage can give me a ride the rest of the way.”

Hard silence slices through the air like razorblades. A heavy feeling settles over the three of us, and suddenly it doesn’t feel like a Sunday drive with friends anymore.

“Um, I can…” I try again.

In one quick motion, Carly twists her blonde head around.

“It’s a short cut,” she barks. The perennial kindness has evaporated, replaced with a cold anger that’s layered with something more malevolent.

Trees stream by—fog fil s in the forest. It gets progressively darker the deeper we rol into the woods.

“Looks like we’re here.” Carson pul s into a narrow clearing that barely affords her the space to turn around and abruptly slams on the brakes.

“Shit!” I say as my face pushes into the passenger’s seat.

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