The Repossession by Sam Hawksmoor

Author:Sam Hawksmoor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-16T14:36:36+00:00

21

Devastation

Moucher woke Genie. He sat up straight and whimpered like he was scared. Genie sat up instantly awake. It was daybreak, the sun had not yet risen. Rian was still asleep beside her, his head resting on a rock. She turned and suddenly saw what Moucher was staring at.

The white-tailed deer was beautiful. It didn’t seem afraid of them at all and grazed on a lush patch of grass.

Genie stared at its antlers and as the light grew in intensity she could see some scarring too from fights. She reached out to Moucher and held his collar. She didn’t want him to do anything rash. Moucher looked at her as if to say, ‘Are you crazy, have you seen the size of that thing?’ but at least he stopped shaking.

The deer moved off back down towards the forest.

By the time Rian woke, the deer had vanished and Moucher was sniffing the ground around them, impatient to get home.

‘Ow, my neck.’

Genie smiled. ‘My shoulders. Can’t believe how

hard sand is to sleep on.’

She brushed sand off Rian’s back and he got up and ran to the bushes. Genie had already done the squat, deathly scared that a snake would find her whilst she was so vulnerable. She was looking at the cave when she noticed graffiti. G & Ri Forever. She felt suddenly very warm inside. G & Ri Forever. Exactly. She decided not to say anything about it – just commit it to memory. She wondered when he’d written that. She would have written it in the sky in reply if she could, in giant letters for the world to see.

Moucher came up to her and barked once. He wanted his breakfast.

‘Cookie?’ She dug the last cookies out of the bag for him and he snapped them up.

Rian was looking down at the farmhouse below.

Smoke was still rising from the burned-out barn, a wooden skeleton all that was left. The sun was slowly rising now.

‘You think it’s safe to go down now?’ Genie asked.

Rian wasn’t sure. ‘Maybe.’

Genie stood up, brushing sand off her jeans.

‘I hope they left some food.’

Rian looked at her and shook his head.

‘All you can think about is breakfast?’

‘I’m trying not to think about the trouble we’re in, Ri.

Or what happened to Marshall.’

Rian looked back down at the farmhouse. ‘Anyone who can use live, lonely kids and dogs for experiments, knowing they’re going to die, wouldn’t hesitate to kill someone who knew about it.’

‘You realize that means us,’ Genie said.

‘And that means us. We go down, get stuff and get the hell out, Gen. It was good being here, but we’ve got no business being here now.’

Genie shivered. She’d grown used to this place, even happy – and she couldn’t remember when she’d ever been happy.

They set off down the slope towards the farmhouse.

Moucher racing ahead, glad to be going home. Her heart went out to the dog. He was going to have a shock when he got there.

The farmhouse was silent. The burned-out shell of a Fortransco Ford Edge SUV stood outside the house.

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