Under Zenith by Camp Shannen Crane

Author:Camp, Shannen Crane [Camp, Shannen Crane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly
Published: 2014-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

“I don’t think this is really considered a crane.”

“You think I care about what it’s called when that stupid spider machine is about to kill me?” I asked rhetorically, hopping back out of the cab and wildly searching the ground for anything that might be useful.

A few feet away I was able to find something that resembled half of a metal hula hoop. Grinning to myself I snatched it up and examined it.

“What is that thing?” Hayden asked.

“I think it’s one of those things that holds a canopy above your bed…well…half of it anyway.”

“Half a canopy?”

“Half of the holder,” I answered, giving him an exasperated look to show him I was not amused by his little jokes. “Now stop asking stupid questions. I know you can’t help me, but that doesn’t mean you should be hindering me either.”

An idea beginning to form in my mind I dropped to my knees on the ground, searching with quick hands through the piles of trash until I found what I was looking for.

“Blinds?” he asked as I picked up the window shade.

“I don’t need the blinds,” I explained. “Just the plastic turner on them.”

I pulled the item in question off of the blinds, glad to see that the attachment on the end of the long plastic shaft was still intact, giving me a notch at the end of the plastic that I could use.

“Look for another one of these,” I instructed Hayden.

He gave me a skeptical look, obviously wondering if this was helping me and I’d suddenly be disqualified.

“I figured everything out myself, I just need you to find this,” I said, trying to justify it.

Hayden didn’t say anything, he simply raised a thick eyebrow at me, still not willing to break the rules.

For a bad boy look alike, he was kind of square.

“Ugh, fine!” I sighed, searching the junkyard for what I was looking for. “There!” I called, seeing one next to Hayden. “Can you at least pull it off of the rest of the blinds for me?”

“You ask so much,” he sighed, doing as I asked and handing the long plastic piece over to me. “And what is this supposed to accomplish again?”

“I’m completing the task,” I answered simply.

Walking over to Hayden, I grabbed the waist of his pants and tugged him toward me, startling him quite a bit as his brow furrowed.

“Dang it,” I said, disappointed at the lack of stretch in his black pants.

“Love, this is hardly the time or the place,” he said very seriously, leaning in closer to me and giving me his version of a seductive smile.

It was more effective than he knew.

“You’re disgusting,” I informed him. “That is definitely not what I was going for. I just need some elastic or something.”

“Sure,” he said somberly, sounding like he pitied my nonexistent infatuation with him.

“And for the record, that’s never going to be what I meant.”

“Thank goodness.”

I didn’t dignify his statement with a response. With the metallic screeching of the spider now startlingly close to me, I attempted to find the last missing piece of my ‘invention’.

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