Mountain Madness by Pyle Daniel

Author:Pyle, Daniel [Pyle, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror, Suspense
Publisher: Blood Brothers Publishing
Published: 2011-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

IN THE BACK of the bouncing truck, Trevor lay against the whining dog, facing the other boy, Zach.

“Where’s he taking us?” Trevor asked.

Zach shook his head. He didn’t know.

“How long has he had you?”

Zach said, “Just since today. I was at home this morning.”

Trevor held the shirtsleeve to his forehead, trying to keep the button on the cuff from pressing into his wound. The dog’s tail wagged against his bare legs, his fur warm but the breeze from the movement chilly.

“How did he catch me? Did you see?” The last thing Trevor remembered was hiding in Daddy’s workshop. He’d decided to run for the house, get to his daddy so they could fight off the bad guy together. But one second he’d started to run and the next he’d found himself in the back of the truck with a dog and a boy he’d never seen before.

Zach looked at him a long time, so long Trevor thought he either didn’t know or didn’t want to answer, and finally he said, “He ran after you. He caught you and spun you around and busted you on the head with some stick.”

Trevor said, “He musta busted me good.” He shifted the pad a little and pressed down hard again.

“Yeah,” said the other boy.

The truck slowed, and Trevor heard the blinker. He tried to sit up, to see what lay ahead, but the motion of the turn sent him tumbling back to the truck’s bed before he could get his head up more than just a little.

Zach had something small and plastic in his hand. Trevor had only just noticed. “What’s that?”

Zach had been staring intently at the thing. Now he looked up at Trevor. “My mom’s cell phone,” he said. “But there’s no service. I’ve been checking it every once in a while. No luck so far.” He pushed on one of the phone’s buttons until it beeped, then flipped the thing shut and shoved it in his pocket. “Dang it.”

“Maybe later,” Trevor said.

Zach only shook his head.

Trevor tried to think of something else to say. “What’s the doggy’s name?” he finally asked, shivering from the breeze blowing across the open top of the truck bed and down among the three of them.

“He calls him Manny,” said Zach, “but I don’t think that’s really his name.”

“Why not?”

Zach shrugged. “He calls me Georgie. He said I used to be Zach but now I’m Georgie. He’s crazy.”

Trevor nodded. He turned onto his other side and petted the dog’s head. Slow, friendly petting. The doggy accepted it with another wag of his tail and leaned over to lick Trevor on his ear.

“Good doggy,” Trevor said and smiled. Behind him, Zach said something he couldn’t hear. He flipped over again. “What?”

“—said maybe we should try and jump out,” Zach repeated, the words gobbled up by the sound of the truck only a little this time.

Trevor shook his head. “We’d get killed,” he said. “For sure. I saw this movie once where a guy tried to jump out of a car to save himself but he got killed instead.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.