Sliding Beneath the Surface (The St. Augustine Trilogy Book I) by Dillon Doug

Author:Dillon, Doug [Dillon, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Old St. Augustine Publications
Published: 2011-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

22

Little Switches

Not knowing what to do, I just watched the cars and trucks heading directly towards me on Cathedral Place. The glare from all those headlights didn’t help any because they reminded me how so many absolutely crazy things had come charging my way since I first arrived at Lobo’s house. It was like all of that happened had somehow filled me up and pushed my old world right out the window. OK, my old world wasn’t so perfect, but at that point I would have taken it back in a second.

“Up here is where your answer lies,” the Flagler College Lobo had said, tapping me between the eyes a short time before.

“Yeah, right!” I said standing there. With my brain so overloaded, I didn’t see how any answers or direction could come from it. Anyway, according to Lobo’s duplicate at Flagler College, I only had until the next day to figure it all out while he, well, both Lobos really, then upped and disappeared on me. “If I’m in so damn much danger here,” I grumbled to myself, “why didn’t at least one of you guys stick around?”

When I said those words though, I shook my head at how completely I seemed to have accepted the fact that Lobo could be in two or even in three places at one time. Then I thought about how I had seen myself outside of the Athena and gave up trying to figure it all out. While lost in my thoughts, some teenagers in an old green Chevy Lumina turned way too fast onto Cordova Street in front of me. The car’s tires screeched and its horn blared. Some guy in the back seat on my side of the road leaned out of his window and yelled, “Get a life zombie.”

“Screw you!” I shouted back and gave him the finger.

“Zombie,” I snorted.

Breathe deeply. At first, I thought someone had spoken those two words, but I wasn’t really sure. Little pinpricks of sensation inside my head made me wonder if one of Lobo’s doubles had come back. A quick look around showed me that hadn’t happened. Even so, I found myself taking five full breaths and concentrating on them as much as I could. When I got done, I had to chuckle. While focusing on my breathing, I realized how truly stupid I must have looked standing there staring vacantly into the headlights of oncoming traffic. At that point, the zombie tag didn’t look far off the mark.

“Now hold on a minute,” I said to myself. I had also noticed how quickly my emotions changed during that encounter with the kids in the Lumina. From being lost and full of fear at the time, I had quickly became angry, very angry. It filled my mind. No room for anything else—an instant and complete shift in attitude. It was almost as if someone had flipped a little switch inside my head. Who was this someone? I asked myself. I wanted to pin it on the kid in the Lumina.

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