Timescape by Robert Liparulo & Joshua Swanson

Author:Robert Liparulo & Joshua Swanson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery, Young Adult, Time travel, Action & Adventure, Paranormal Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, ebook, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Christian, Fantasy, Horror & Ghost Stories, book, supernatural, Adventure, Horror stories, Suspense, General, Religious, Thriller, Dwellings
ISBN: 9781441777553
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Published: 2009-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

twenty - seven

THURSDAY, 1:59 A.M.

“With everything going on, I forgot about Wuzzy,” David said.

He was sitting next to Toria on the antechamber bench.

Dad stood against the opposite wall, and Keal leaned his shoulder against the doorjamb. They were all staring down at the teddy bear on the floor as though it were a snippy little dog who liked to bite.

“What is it?” Keal said.

“My friend,” Toria said, pouty. She looked betrayed by the stuffed animal, and David supposed in a way she had been; scaring them like that certainly wasn’t very friendly.

“It has a memory chip in it,” David said. “It records what it hears and plays it back.”

He remembered the drive up from Pasadena to Pinedale.

Toria had driven Xander crazy by making Wuzzy mimic his words in a continuous loop: “Nothing but trees,” Xander had complained, looking out the window as they neared town.

“Nothing but trees.”

“And it’s playing back your mom’s voice?” Keal said.

David nodded. “That was her. Definitely.”

“What’s he doing up here?” Toria said.

“I think someone wanted to get you alone,” David said.

“David,” Dad said. His tone said he didn’t want David scaring Toria.

“Someone did,” David said. He did want to scare her. “And it worked. She came up here, Dad. Maybe she didn’t go far enough down the hallway to get grabbed, or my noises downstairs kept them from doing it, but they could have gotten her!”

Dad frowned at David, but his expression softened.

He knows I’m right, David thought.

Dad turned worried-angry eyes on Toria. He said, “You are never to come up here alone again, you understand? And you’re sleeping in my room from now on.”

“Maybe we all should,” David said.

He thought about Xander, still asleep in their bedroom. A chair was wedged under the linen closet door handle, so that entrance into the house was probably secure, and most of the threats against them had come from the doors on the third floor, where they were now.

Xander’s safe, he thought, but it still gave him the creeps thinking of his brother alone and asleep in this house. How much more defenseless can you be than when you were sleeping? That kicked his imagination into gear. He pictured towering figures standing around Xander’s bed, hunched over him in the darkness.

He hopped off the bench. “Xander,” he said. “We left him alone.”

Dad stepped around Wuzzy to put an arm around David’s shoulders. “He’s fine. You’re spooked.”

“You bet I am,” David said. Spooked, confused, frustrated, scared out of his pants for himself, his sister, his whole family: if it fell under the category of This is a nightmare! Wake me up now! David was feeling it. He said, “I thought . . . and Toria coming up here . . . I mean . . . what . . . why?”

“Exactly,” Keal said. His rock-solid voice was like granite compared to the shifting sand of David’s shaking words. “What and why? If whoever put the teddy bear up here wanted to lure Toria upstairs, what do they want and

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