Monster by Barbara Steiner

Author:Barbara Steiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497628571
Publisher: Open Road Media

Chapter 11

The hours before ten o’clock Tuesday night seemed to number into the hundreds. They weighed on Abby like a ton of bricks instead of minutes and seconds.

She went to classes, studied, tried to study. Both Monday and Tuesday nights she went to the chem lab and worked on her extra-credit project.

Tuesday night Stan was in the chem lab before her, since she’d spent time in the library before going there.

He was no longer the least bit friendly, ignoring Abby while she got settled. Thank goodness her table was clear across the room from him. But then she could feel daggers of anger and hatred coming across the room into her back. Geez, she had just refused to go out with him. Was that such a crime? And he knew she was going out with David, so he shouldn’t have been surprised at her saying no.

The rotten egg smell from whatever he was stirring and heating floated across the room and mixed with the equally acrid smell from her experiment. Two mad scientists competing for worst mess of the year. That’s what hers looked like — a mess. She couldn’t see his mixture, but if the appearance matched the smell, it was probably gooey, green, and black, with just a touch of khaki brown.

Suddenly, before she was ready, it was quarter to ten. She had to stop if she was going to get to the pond at the same time as David and Sissy. She covered her mixture and placed it in one of the class freezers.

She turned to go and was surprised. When had Stan left? She must have really been concentrating if she hadn’t heard him. But then he had the ability to creep around like a hyena hunting.

Outside, a light spring drizzle had stopped and fog had formed. Thick fog. She could scarcely see ten feet ahead of her. The trees across from Griswold Hall loomed suddenly as she crossed the grass and neared the pond.

Keeping off the sidewalk, she walked in complete silence around the south end of the water. Twice she thought she heard someone behind her, just a slight scuffling in the grass, once a crunch of gravel, a whisper of weeds crushed.

She glanced around, but of course could see nothing in the thick, gray, cottony air. She might have arrived before David or Sissy. She needed to be careful not to stumble across either of them. That would certainly spoil her plan to hide and listen.

She needn’t have worried. Because what she spotted near the benches, just where they said they’d meet, was two bodies twined into one. Sissy and David. Kissing.

Abby bit her lip, holding back sudden tears and a sob. She should have been angry. All she felt was a huge ball of sadness pressing on her chest, her heart.

What should she do? Scream and rage at David and Sissy? Let them know she had seen them? Slip away, sneak into the bushes like a whipped dog? Pretend she didn’t know, and wait for David to confess? For him to say, what we had is over, Abby.

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