Ending ELE (ELE Series) by Gober Rebecca & Courtney Nuckels

Author:Gober, Rebecca & Courtney Nuckels [Gober, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
Published: 2013-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

The sound of someone moving about in the room wakes me up. I wrestle my sleep-filled eyes open and try to look around in the dark. I make out a shape near the far side of the room. I sit up quietly as not to disturb Tony or Claire, who lay close to where I am, and I tiptoe over.

The pale light of the moon is enough for me to make out Michael working his shoes on near the front door. He looks up when he sees me approach. I don’t know if it’s because I’m tired, but he doesn’t seem surprised to see me standing there.

“What are you doing?” I ask in a hushed whisper.

“I need to show you something,” he whispers back.

I step closer, intrigued and pulled to him.

“Put on your shoes and coat,” he tells me.

I comply, not thinking twice about where we are going. A strange man, alone in the dark woods, all of a sudden doesn’t feel strange at all. We stealthily slip down the hall a moment later. I expected that we would be going outside, but instead, we head in the direction of Dr. Hastings’s study. We quietly open the path to the secret room. Michael finds a battery-operated lamp and works to open up the other secret passageway in the floor. I climb in after him. It isn’t until we’ve closed the door and are lit in lamplight that we talk again.

“Where are we going?” I ask him, a little out of breath as I descend on the ladder above him.

“I couldn’t sleep because I kept thinking about what you said about the military taking your friends. I feel like I’ve seen something that could be their operation. It wasn’t far from here, but there is a city of tents set up with a barbed-wire fence surrounding it,” he tells me as we continue to climb down.

He hits the ground first and then reaches up to help me off the ladder. His hands are on my sides as he helps to set me on the ground. A strange sensation pangs through me. I turn and find myself standing only an inch or so apart from him, yet something makes me want to stand closer. I lean into him, my ear is pressed up against his chest and I can hear his nervous heartbeat. I feel glued, stuck, yet I can’t bring myself to move. My thoughts are nowhere to be found until he clears his throat lightly.

I startle and try to pull myself away. It’s as if a thousand pounds are pushing me into him though. I have to call on my power of strength to merely step back a foot from him. The daze washes away and I’m left feeling extremely awkward. What in the world was that? I think to myself. I look up at him blushing. Thankfully, it’s quite dark in here.

He smiles at me with pearly white teeth as if nothing happened. I take another step back because I want so badly to lean into him again but I know that isn’t right.

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