Boop and Eve's Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff

Author:Mary Helen Sheriff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Justine: How was Karl?

Eve looked up from her mom’s text. “Really, Boop? You told my mom we were going to Karl’s? What are you, a spy?”

“I didn’t know it was supposed to be a big ol’ secret.”

Eve sighed. “I guess it wasn’t.”

“You gonna text her back?” Boop asked from the driver’s seat. After Eve’s big cry, Boop had insisted that Eve take some recovery time before driving again.

“Later. I don’t want to deal with her now.” Eve slid her phone onto the dash and stared out the window. The car’s windows were dirty from the earlier rain. She’d have to wash Boop’s car for her when they finally got to Richmond. No sense in dealing with it before, since the ocean air wouldn’t do it any favors. She stared mindlessly into the side-view mirror. The truck behind them looked familiar. She swung around in her seat to look through the back of the car. “Boop, you recognize that pickup behind us?”

“Nah.”

“I’m pretty sure I saw it when we stopped for gas earlier.”

“Maybe so, but this road might as well be a pickup truck parade.”

“But I think I met the lady driving that one in the bathroom.”

Boop squinted her eyes at the rearview mirror. “Small world.”

“But Boop, we stopped for gas a while ago, and then went to Karl’s. What are the chances that we’d be on the same road at the same time again?”

Boop changed lanes. A minute later the pickup truck did too. Boop slowed to an old-lady pace. The pickup did too. “Sweetheart, I do believe you’re right. Damn that Vicky.”

“She sicced her PI on us.”

“Seems so.” Boop abruptly swung into the exit lane and floored it. The lady in the pickup truck followed.

“Go, Boop!”

And Boop did. She drove like the NASCAR drivers she’d spent many a Sunday afternoon watching. “Yeehaw!” she yelled as the car bounced over a particularly bumpy patch. From the dash, Eve’s phone dropped to the floor.

Squeezing her eyes shut, Eve hung on to her seatbelt for dear life—not sure her bat-shit crazy grandma wasn’t about to get them killed. Her heart raced, as the car flung her left, then right, then left again. Building nausea forced Eve to open her eyes again, just in time to see Boop running a red light and two cars slamming on their brakes to avoid crashing into them. Eve squealed.

Boop laughed and turned onto an unmarked road that weaved all over the place.

The pickup truck had disappeared from the side-view mirror. Eve turned in her seat, looking all around the Gray Ghost. Nothing. No pickup. No anything except trees. Trees and more trees. “For God’s sake, slow down!”

Boop eased on the brakes. “She gone?”

“Yeah. Where are we?”

“Don’t know.”

Eve picked her phone up. The screen was black and cracked. She poked at the buttons. “Useless. Where’s your phone?’

“Mmm. In my purse, but I forgot to charge it last night, so it died while we were at Karl’s.” The car hit a pothole, making Boop flinch.

“What are we gonna do?”

“I got a road atlas in the pocket behind my seat.

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