Nicolae High by Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Christian
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

SIX

Deacon and Bub

“THIS Bub guy,” Deacon said, “you know him well?”

“Never met him,” Vicki said. “I told you. He was a friend of my brother’s.”

“You sure you got his name right? Beryl Gaylor, right?”

“Right. Why?”

“Are you sitting down?”

“Just tell me.”

“He’s dead, Vicki. When did you say you talked to him last?”

Vicki could hardly speak. “The day of the Rapture,” she managed. “He was fine. What happened?”

“Here’s what I heard from my friend in the police department,” Deacon said. “Gaylor was missing for a few days, so they searched his and your brother’s apartment. They already knew Edward—that’s your brother’s name, right?”

“Right.”

“Had disappeared out of his car. There was no evidence Bub had disappeared, no pile of clothes, that kind of a thing. His answering machine had a message from a friend, asking him to come over and check the friend’s basement with him. This guy reported a gas leak the night before. The gas company repairman came out to check the lines in the basement, and then told Bub’s friend to find another place to stay for the night while he worked on it. When the guy called the gas company in the morning to see if he could move back in, he couldn’t get through—you know, with the vanishings and everything.

“So he was asking Gaylor to go with him to see if his house was OK. The police went to the guy’s house and found the gas truck in the driveway, the owner’s car and Bub’s car parked behind it. The house had blown.”

Vicki let out a huge sigh. “So all three of them were killed?”

“No. It looks like the gas company guy disappeared. Because the house didn’t blow until Bub and his friend got there. The cops figure the gas guy disappeared when everyone else did, before he could fix the leak. Those guys coming inside in the morning to check on him must have sparked something that ignited the gas.”

Vicki didn’t know what to say. “I hate this,” she said finally. “It’s like we have to talk to everyone right away because you never know what’s going to happen to them.”

“Had your brother tried to tell him?”

“Yes.”

“You never know, Vicki,” Deacon said. “Something may have gotten through to him, even after you talked to him.”

Vicki couldn’t imagine, but she could hope. She thanked Deacon and said she hoped to run into him again sometime. She moved to the couch in the living room and sat crying softly. In a few minutes, Judd came looking for her.

She told him what had happened. “You see why school is going to be such a waste of time?” she said.

He shook his head. “I know it seems that way, but more kids might listen to us there than anywhere else.”

“But will we be allowed to say anything? I wonder what everybody else makes of the disappearances and Carpathia and all that.”

“I wonder, who’ll be there and who won’t,” Judd said. “How many teachers and coaches and office people were raptured, and

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