Go-Ready: Are You Ready for the End? by Ryan Husk

Author:Ryan Husk [Husk, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nine Dusks Entertainment LLC
Published: 2019-07-09T22:00:00+00:00

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The jets roared overhead. Janet instinctively ducked, as did Gordon. The guys ahead on their motorcycles swiveled a little, like evasion tactics. The jets seemed to almost have burst right out of the forest. They had been so low to the ground that their wake split the trees. Three of them, in one of those classic formations she’d seen in movies: one jet out front, the other two flanking it and remaining just behind, forming a perfect triangle.

“What the hell are they doing?!” Janet shrieked. Nobody answered her. Gordon rolled down his window and looked outside, up at the sky, all around, searching for something. She had started trembling again. That wasn’t good. She had checked her blood-sugar just thirty seconds ago and it was close to another spike.

The big, blonde-bearded biker—Think his name’s Jeb?—had just slowed down and was about to holler something into their window when the jets went past. “Fuck me!” he cried. After a few seconds of the shock wearing off of everyone, Jeb hollered, “Marshall’s gonna guide us through the trees. Says the forest is dense, but ain’t as dense as she looks. We’ll drive slow an’ careful-like.”

Janet watched Edward think for a moment. Then, he nodded. “All right, lead the way. And hey! Tell Wade we need to pull over once we’re through. We need to regroup and make sure we know where we’re going.”

“I’ll tell ’im,” said Jeb, and sped up to catch up to his hog-driving brothers.

“What the hell were those jets?” Janet said. “Somebody explain that to me.”

“I don’t know,” said Edward. But something in his voice told her otherwise. It was the same edge her father had when that tornado hit two years ago. Janet had been crying and asking, “Why did the lights go out?” Her father had only shrugged and said, with just a touch of edge in his voice, that it was probably only a random blackout. Nothing to worry about. When it got darker outside and the wind was pressing against the windows and causing them to pop, she had asked again, and heard even more edge in his voice as he said that it was only a strong thunderstorm, nothing to worry about.

She looked at Edward. He has a suspicion, but doesn’t want to say.

Janet knew something else. It was for her benefit, because the adults didn’t think she could handle it, either because she was as girl or because she was seen as a child, or both. And she had never liked being treated like a child.

With trembling hands, she tried her phone again. Nothing, only that constant squeal that hurt her ears.

They moved off the road and onto the jogging course, which was a little bumpy, and then followed the Bearded Biker Boys into the forest. The ground was level enough for all of them to pass. The Chevy went first, though slowly and as tentatively as a person testing the temperature of water with their toes before jumping in. “C’mon, c’mon,” Edward said.

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