Ghost Camera by Darcy Coates

Author:Darcy Coates [Coates, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Jenine very rarely saw her best friend vulnerable, frightened, or without answers. Bree was a perpetual achiever: obstacles only existed for her to knock over. Seeing Bree look so helpless and alone was a new experience for Jenine, but there it was; proof that Bree Abernackle was human.

As she sat on the floor with her arms around Bree, Jenine tried to come to terms with her new knowledge. She was going to die. Not in fifty years, when she was old and had lived a full life, but in the immediate future.

She tried to take stock of her emotions, and found they were missing. She felt numb, as if she were watching herself act in a movie. The professor-looking man had strolled into her life, told her she was a dead woman walking, then strolled out, leaving her to shrug at the camera. It wasn’t real. It couldn’t possibly be real.

Bree seemed to be dealing with the news in a very different way. She rocked on the floor, gripping Jenine’s arm, her eyes dull as she stared at the floor. She looked sick.

“Bree…”

She shook her head and pulled herself out of Jenine’s arms. She stood, stumbled, then walked to her bag in the corner of the room and pulled out her mobile. Jenine stood up, uncertain what she should say or do.

Bree disappeared into the bedroom. When she came out two minutes later, her face was all hard angles and covered in a sheen of sweat. She dropped the phone into her bag and leaned her hands on the kitchen counter, breathing deeply through her nose.

Jenine approached Bree from behind and placed a hand on her shoulder. Bree turned, offered a watery smile, and said, “He didn’t answer.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.” Jenine wanted to smack herself as soon as the words left her mouth. Of all the things she could have said to someone who’d just found out she was about to die, “I’m sorry” had to be the most useless and insipid choice.

Bree scrunched up her face and pulled Jenine into a hug. “Don’t be. Not your fault. Anyway,”—she pulled back—“we’re not done yet. Holt doesn’t want to help us, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do.”

Just like that, Active Bree was back.

“Here’s the plan,” she said, turning on the kettle and picking up the laptop in one deft sweep. “We’re going to get a cup of tea. We’re going to do five minutes of meditation. Then we’re going to find a solution to this. So what if we don’t have help from the ‘expert’? There’s got to be a way to beat this, and we’ll figure out what it is. I promise.”

Jenine nodded, mostly just relieved to let Bree take over.

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