The Reading Buddy by Bryce Gibson

Author:Bryce Gibson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fear Street, Point Horror, 90s horror, 1990s horror
Publisher: Bryce Gibson
Published: 2018-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

THE IMAGE OF CADE THAT I was looking at on the computer screen gave me goose bumps.

In the grainy, green-tinted night vision of the photo, Cade was kneeled down on the ground.

A large buck was laid across Cade’s raised right knee. Each of Cade’s hands grasped onto each side of the deer’s antlers. The deer’s tongue was lolled out in a disgusting and sad display of death.

An arrow was buried deep into the deer’s side, and a dark trail of blood, black in the photo, ran from the entry point of the arrow all the way down the deer’s side. Cade was smiling. Another boy that I recognized as being Tristan stood across from Cade. Tristan was holding a camera. He was taking a picture of Cade and the deer.

What we were looking at was from the hunting camera. The fact that it was the picture of someone taking a picture made the whole thing seem overly voyeuristic. I could see in the background, behind where Tristan stood, the rubble of the old building that was in the clearing.

Lisa and I were sitting at the desk in my room. She had removed the SD card from the camera and put it in the drive of my laptop. She had flipped through the pictures until she found the one that we were staring at.

“Like father like son,” I said in reference to Cade’s dad’s prior record of being arrested.

“Yeah, but Cade wasn’t caught. I think that’s the thing...” Lisa was flipping through the photos on the computer and stopped abruptly. “O...M...G.”

The picture that was now on the computer monitor explained it all...

Cade was standing next to Tristan. The deer was on the ground. A cop car was in the background.

Lisa flipped to the next photo.

A deputy was talking to Tristan and Cade.

“So they were caught,” I said.

“But they weren’t charged. Heck, nobody even knew about it, and around here that is an anomaly on its own.” Lisa spun around so that she was looking at me. “I bet Cade’s dad paid off this cop so he wouldn’t talk. Just imagine the shit storm that would have happened if the mayor’s son was charged with a crime.”

“So what do we do now?”

Lisa shook her head. She clicked the X at the top right of the picture and closed the window. Cade, Tristan, the deputy, and the deer disappeared. “I’ll figure something out. I promise.” She removed the SD card from the computer. “Just imagine if this goes on social media... the scandal!” She waved the card in the air. “It could go viral.”

I didn’t like the idea of what she was suggesting. As much as I disliked Cade and what he had done, somehow this seemed wrong.

Lisa stood from her chair. She flung herself toward me and wrapped her arms around my neck. “We did it,” she said. “Thank you.”

I followed her downstairs, and, before she left, she turned around to face me again. “By the way, there’s this thing Sunday night at the drive-in if you want to go.

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