Vesper by Jeff Sampson

Author:Jeff Sampson [Sampson, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: 2011-01-24T22:00:00+00:00

It's funny, but for some reason all three of them seemed to trust me not to act out again that night. If only they'd known I didn't really have much of a choice.

"This movie is horrible," Megan declared, legs curled up under her on the couch. She grabbed the remote and flicked off the DVD. I didn't try to stop her. I was distracted and not really paying attention to the movie anyway, but what I had seen of it was, indeed, horrible. We had better gore effects in the homemade movie Megan and I had made when we were twelve—I'd played the monster slayer, and she'd played the monster.

It was only seven forty-five. Still a half hour to go before I transformed into Nighttime Emily and Megan would have to strap me to a gurney, or whatever it was she planned to do to keep me from going out.

"So what do you want to do now?" I asked. "We could watch another movie, but we've seen them all... maybe a musical, get singtastic..."

Megan shrugged. "I don't feel like singing. We've only got a half an hour to go until your supposed 'change' anyway." She flicked through channels until we ended up on a rerun of Ms. Nguyen's talk show. Megan chuckled and kept it on, while Ms. Nguyen—dressed in a teal pantsuit— chatted away in Vietnamese, presumably about a grainy still image of a UFO that was in the top left corner of the screen.

"I know," she said, muting Ms. Nguyen and turning to face me on the couch. "Want to hear what Lucas told me earlier? About Emily C. and Dalton?"

I hesitated, then said, "What about them?"

"Well, Deputy Jared made photocopies of the police reports. Total inside knowledge about what went down."

I blinked. "Yeah, uh, that's sort of morbid."

Megan shrugged and buried herself back into the cushions. She swirled her finger over the armrest. "Well, you know how they said Emily C. was walking alone dressed only in flannel pajamas? How she didn't even have any shoes on? She walked, like, three miles barefoot. What they didn't say is that she cut her foot three blocks before where she died, that she had a big gash on her heel. The forensics people said from the tracks she made that it was like she didn't even notice, just kept on strolling, leaving a bloody trail.

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