Gator Baitin' (The Grateful Undead series Book 2) by Susan Stec

Author:Susan Stec [Stec, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Susan Stec
Published: 2012-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 17

Blessed Blood, it ain't easy…

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"Jake, we are not going twenty-five miles out of the way so you don't have to look at an AutoZone!" Mom said from the front seat.

"We have to; I can't eat if I see an AutoZone!"

"Is the one in Eustis or Apopka or on Lee Road where you saw the mouse?" Resi asked.

"No, but any AutoZone reminds me of the incident," Jake whined from the back seat where he sat next to Zaire and Resi.

Zaire snapped, "So? What? We can never drive by an AutoZone?"

"Paul, do me a favor and hit every AutoZone between here and Winter Park," Mom said," and that's an order."

"Can we all just shut up for the remainder of the ride?" I turned around and nudged Christopher who was snoring on one side of me, while Marcus sat on my other side giving me very little room on the middle seat.

Paul whistled Three Blind Mice from the driver's seat.

Jake shuddered violently, a small flame burst from his lips.

"Okay, screw the twenty-five extra miles," Zaire snapped. "Head to the Maitland Interchange and get on Hwy 441. I just oiled my hair and it's gonna go up like a friggin' gas pilot light if he keeps spitting flames."

Gibbie giggled uncontrollably, teetering on the back of my seat and finally falling into my lap. I scooped him up. His fluttering wings tickled my palms and I giggled.

"What's so important about Frisch's?" Resi asked Jake.

"Have you ever seen the Frisch's Big Boy?"

"Yeees," Resi said.

"Then you've seen the hamburger he's holding."

"Oookay?" Resi questioned.

Jake huffed.

Everyone in the car flinched.

Jake rolled his eyes. "It's the biggest hamburger in the world and I want to try one."

"You've gotta be kidding me," Gibbie spit out between laughs.

Resi stopped laughing and sighed.

"Jake," I said softly, glaring a warning at the others, "That's not the actual size. The one the statue is holding is just big so people could see it from the road. The hamburgers aren't any bigger than Mac-D's quarter pounder. I've been there."

Jake squished himself down on the seat, vigorously rubbed his cheeks, eyes open wide.

"You guys aren't making very good time," JoAnn's annoying voice announced from the dashboard.

Mom hit the red button and growled at the speaker. "The frigging dragon should have stayed at home. He's screwing up the whole mission."

"Let's just head to Big Boy and get him a hamburger, Chick," Marcus said.

Paul began singing Three Blind Mice.

"I don't want to go anymore," Jake whimpered.

"See," Mom shouted at the console. She sucked her teeth loudly and then sang along. "Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run."

Jake shot up, both hands over his mouth."

Resi hacked up a laugh. Zaire hit her. "Knock it off. He's sitting next to me. It's not your hair that's gonna go up in flames."

"That's it!" Mom said. "Everyone shut the hell up. Paul cut the frigging whistling! Jake, you shoot a flame of any size, from any orifice and I'm kicking your ass out of this car."

JoAnn's voice sent us in another direction.

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