Stone Ranger by Bob Blanton

Author:Bob Blanton [Blanton, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-21T07:00:00+00:00

Shoot Her

The plane made another perfect landing at Palomar. After it taxied to a stop, Mr. Winthrop got up to make an announcement.

“The plane’s not due anywhere for a couple of days, so if you’ll just get your personal bags, Jason will come over tomorrow and get all the ski gear.”

“Hey, thanks, Jason,” Tyler said obviously enjoying the idea of Jason fetching everyone’s luggage.

“No problem.”

As they got off the plane, Emily pulled Matthew aside, “Hopefully with so much excitement in Vail, Alex has forgotten about her friend here, but just in case will you check on her tonight?”

“Sure, I was planning to. I’m not counting on her forgetting.”

“I’m not betting on it either.”

Tyler walked over and made a big point of giving Emily a kiss. “I’ll see you in school tomorrow.” Tyler grabbed his bag and headed to his car.

Jason shuttled Alex, Matt, Jen and her parents in the Expedition. The Stevensons and the Winthrops both had their cars waiting for them.

“Well, Jen, are you still coming over when Jeffrey comes to practice?”

“Of course!”

“What about Bill?”

“He’s in Vail; we’ll probably never see each other again.”

“But you did exchange phone numbers.”

“Sure, but you know how that goes.”

“I think he was a very nice young man,” Mrs. Reeves said.

“Thanks, Mom.” Jennifer was obviously not excited about her mother having anything to do with her love life.

◆ ◆ ◆

At 9:30 Matthew checked in on Alex. Sure enough she was set up on the road above Sayid’s house.

“Come on Alex, I don’t want to stay up late tonight, I’m tired,” Matthew muttered to himself, then his face lit up like a light bulb going off. “I wonder?”

Matthew went to the refrigerator and got an ice cup that he kept there for working on sore muscles. Taking it back to his room, he focused on Alex again. He put one end of the portal over Alex’s jugular and the other end on the ice cup. After a few minutes, Alex was shuddering from cold. She tightened her coat around herself, but finally she started her car, turned the heater up full blast and drove off.

“Score.”

◆ ◆ ◆

Then next morning before French class, Emily and Matthew conferred.

“Well?”

“She was there. But get this, I used an ice cup and did our warming technique in reverse. She went home in five minutes.”

“What made you think of that?”

“I was tired and didn’t want to stay up babysitting her till 10:30, so as they say, necessity is the mother of invention.”

“I guess so. But can you get away with that every night?”

“I don’t know, but maybe we can train her to not like the place.”

“It’s worth a try. Are you coming over tonight to study?”

“If you want, but if you’re too tired we can skip it.”

“No we’d better not. Why don’t you come by my house around 7:00; I’ll give you a ride home.”

“Sounds fine.”

◆ ◆ ◆

At lunch, Matthew met Brianna in the parking lot. Shortly Jason and Alex drove up in Jason’s Lexus. Matthew and Brianna squeezed into the back of the sports car.

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