Sanctuary by Carroll Jenny & Cabot Meg

Author:Carroll, Jenny & Cabot, Meg [Carroll, Jenny & Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fantasy, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781416927075
Google: MYXzibzjje8C
Amazon: 1416927077
Barnesnoble: 1416927077
Goodreads: 199781
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2002-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

C H A P T E R

11

Hey, I’ll admit it. I wanted on that snowmobile. I wanted on it, bad.

Can you blame me? I’d never been on one before.

And for someone who likes going fast, well, what’s more thrilling than going fast over snow? Oh, sure, I’d been skiing before, over at the dinky slopes of Paoli Peaks. It had been fun and all. For like an hour. I mean, let’s face it, Indiana is not exactly known for its mountainous terrain, so the Peaks got old kind of fast for any thrill seeker worthy of the name.

But nothing could compare to the sensation of zipping over all that thickly packed white stuff with my arms wrapped tightly around the waist of my hot, if disapproving, boyfriend.

Oh, it was good. It was real good.

But I have to admit, the part after we’d pulled up in front of the True Americans’ barbed-wire fence, and just sat there with the engine switched off, gazing at the lights of Jim Henderson’s house, glimmering through the trees?

Yeah, that part wasn’t so fun.

That was on account of the fact that deep in the backwoods of Indiana, on a late November evening, it is very, very cold. Bone-chillingly cold. Mind-numbingly cold. Or at least toe and finger-numbingly cold.

You would think that Rob and I could have thought up something to do, you know, to pass the time—as well as keep warm—while we waited for Chick to catch up to us with the backup he’d promised. But given the fact that Rob was still so mad we were here at all, there hadn’t been much, you know, of that going on. In fact, none at all.

“So what are we waiting for, again?” I asked.

“Reinforcements,” was Rob’s terse reply.

“Yeah,” I said. “I get that part. But can’t we just, you know, go and wait inside?”

“And what are we going to do,” Rob said, “if we find Seth?”

“Bust on out of there,” I said.

“Using what as a weapon?”

I thought a minute. “Our rapier wit?”

“Like I said.”

Well. So much for that.

Rob didn’t seem as cold as I was. Why is that? How come boys never get as cold as girls do? And also, what’s with the peeing thing? Like how come I totally had to pee, and he didn’t? He’d had as many Cokes back at Chick’s as I did.

And even if he had had to pee, it wouldn’t have been any big deal for him. I mean, he could have just gone over to any old tree and done it.

But for me, it would have been like this major production. And a lot more of me would have been exposed to the forces of nature. Which, with it being like ten below, or something, were pretty harsh.

Whatever. Life is just unfair. That’s all I have to say.

Not that I had it so bad, I guess. I mean, comparatively, I guess I’ve always had it pretty good. I mean, my parents are still together, and seem pretty happy to stay

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