Twilight Time by Rick Hautala

Author:Rick Hautala [Hautala, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2015-08-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Graffiti

As much as he would have liked to go, Jeff declined Katherine’s offer for him to come over to her house for lunch. He seriously considered it, and she repeated the offer enough times so he knew she really meant it, but he felt so drained by the morning’s events that all he wanted to do was go back to Judy’s house, take another shower and a couple of aspirin, and lie down for a while. He didn’t have a bad headache—not yet, but he could feel one coming on, building up strength like a thunderstorm just below the horizon.

The minister and undertaker each expressed their condolences to Jeff before leaving, but Jeff and Katherine stayed behind at the cemetery, huddling beneath her umbrella as the rain beat down on them. Danny waited in the car, his pale face looking wraithlike through the misted car window.

Jeff and Katherine said very little as they both stared thoughtfully at the flower-covered grave. Finally, once he thought he was ready to leave, Jeff turned to Katherine and gave her a bracing hug.

“Thanks … again,” he said, speaking loud to be heard above the snapping sound of rain on the umbrella. “For … for being here.”

Katherine looked at him, smiled weakly, and nodded.

After an awkward moment staring at each other, Jeff leaned forward and gave her a lingering kiss, full on the lips. He knew damned well that both of them had been through a lot of changes over the years, too many changes for either of them to have any clue about the other, but he couldn’t help but think how good, how natural it felt to be holding her in his arms once again. She felt so … so different from Sally, and as much as he didn’t want it to happen, he felt himself getting an erection just by touching her. He tried not to imagine what might happen if he did take her up on her offer to go back to her house.

Go ahead, whispered a teasing voice in the back of his mind. You know you want to … and who the hell’s ever going to know, huh?

After saying goodbye and repeating his vague promise that they would get together before he went back to Colorado, he got into his car and drove back to Cape Higgins alone. He knew it would take a long time—maybe the rest of his life—for the reality of everything he had just been through to sink in, but he also knew that he just had to keep moving ahead and try to accept it.

Judy was dead … dead and buried, and there wasn’t a damned thing he could do about it!

There was a cold emptiness in his life, and he knew no matter what else ever happened to him, that emptiness would never be entirely filled.

Tears were running from his eyes, blurring his vision as he drove back through town and turned onto Long Shore Drive. The hollow, lonely ache in his

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