Ravage by Jeff Sampson

Author:Jeff Sampson [Sampson, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-02-11T13:00:00+00:00

17

IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON

Not even a three-hour car ride feels like a breather after the dose of insanity we’d gotten at Evan’s house.

I couldn’t believe that it was the same day we’d stormed out of BioZenith in a blaze of glory. It felt like ages ago. And I could barely believe that the day wasn’t done.

Of course, we still had a company to destroy.

After the cursory reintroductions—Amy and Evan remembered each other better from elementary school than either did me, what with my lifelong invisibility and all—I took a deep breath and told our story. I laid out everything that happened since last we talked, ending with the big escape we’d pulled off—and our plans to go back.

“Do you think you’re up for it?” I asked him when I finished. “I mean, I know you just went through a lot.”

“He has to be up for it,” Amy said, steering the car expertly north on the freeway. “You can…slip between the dimensions or whatever, right? You’re the only one who can go through and get Dalton and come back. So you have to go.”

Mouth agape, Evan looked between me sitting next to him in the backseat and Amy up front.

“I don’t want to force you into anything,” I quickly added. “But these people are just like your mom. They want to help the Akhakhu come and possess us all.”

Evan sat there, quiet, thinking. He was exactly as he looked on cam: angled features, blond hair, slender build. The biggest differences were his exhausted eyes and that the hair on the back of his head stuck up, disheveled. His blue windbreaker, zipped up to his throat, was also a wrinkled mess.

But even though he was probably only a few months younger than me, I couldn’t erase the feeling I’d also gotten in the basement. Motherly. Protective.

“So how about it?” Amy asked after Evan didn’t answer. “What do you say, big guy?”

“Uh, yeah,” he said. He swallowed and ran a hand through his hair. “If it’ll stop those things on the other side, then yeah. I’ll help.”

Amy glanced back and winked. “I always knew you would.”

It was fully dark by the time the freeway arced toward Skopamish. The lights of the small city glittered through the ever-present trees.

We drove to the Cookes’ house first, but the silver Lexus wasn’t there. Worry nibbled at the back of my head, but I refused to let it take over. The cheerleaders had said they’d go their parents’ house if need be.

The car wasn’t at Nikki’s house either. I held my breath when we turned down the street on which the Delgados lived.

And let out a sigh of relief when I saw Casey in the driveway, leaning against Mr. Cooke’s car, as though waiting for us.

Amy pulled partway into the driveway, then rolled down the window. Casey ran over and leaned in.

“Is everything cool?” Amy asked, her voice hushed.

Casey grinned, nodding at Evan and me in the backseat. “Yeah, we’re doing great. We were hoping you’d meet up with us before we went to BioZenith.

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