Uncommon Reality Box Set by Lovelyn Bettison

Author:Lovelyn Bettison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Magical Realism, Box Set, urban fantasy
Publisher: Nebulous Mooch
Published: 2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

My cell phone rang on the way back to my parents' house. I didn't have to look to see who it was, I already knew it was Tom. Koji plugged the earpiece into the phone and handed it to me.

"You delivered it?" Tom asked.

"What?" I decided to mess with him because he was being so rude.

He hesitated for a moment. "The box."

"Oh ... that." I dragged out my words.

"Stop fooling around."

"Yeah, we're just leaving her house now."

"You took someone else with you?"

"I didn't want to go to some strange house by myself. That could be dangerous."

"Okay." He paused. "But you did deliver it?"

"Didn't I just tell you that?"

"Did she say anything to you?"

"She said a lot of things."

"Anything about the box?"

"No, not really." I didn't know if I should tell him that she'd asked us to come back tomorrow. I decided not to mention it.

"So you're coming back now?"

"Nah, we're going to stick around here another couple of days and enjoy ourselves."

"Call me when you get back and I'll pay you the rest of the money."

"Sounds good."

He hung up. Again no good-bye or see you or anything.

"What a jerk!" I pulled the earpiece out of my ear.

"Really? He seemed nice when I met him," Eve said from the back seat.

"I thought he was nice before this trip." The streets were unusually dark. Thunder roared in the distance. There was no moon, no stars, just a black, velvety sky overhead. Then the rain started. It wasn't heavy at first.

"Koji, maybe I should let you know that the sunroof leaks," I said.

"Great." He looked up.

"It's not that bad if it doesn't rain hard, and it only happens when I turn left. Actually, it's more like someone is dumping a bucket of water on you than it is a leak."

"Look out, Eve. I'm joining you in the back seat." Koji clicked off his seat belt and climbed over the seat.

"Watch it," I said as his heel came dangerously close to my nose. I moved my head to the side to avoid being struck and swerved the car a bit too. The front tire scraped the curb before I could right it.

"And you talk about my driving." Eve laughed.

"She didn't spin us out onto the median." Koji lay on the backseat. His head was in Eve's lap.

The rain started pounding the roof, and I flipped on the wipers. It was at times like these that I always remembered I needed my wiper blades changed. They left streaks on the windshield that made it hard to see.

"Your wipers are terrible," Koji said. "Can you see?"

"Buckle up," I joked. I heard both of their seat belts click. Now the rain was coming down so hard that I really couldn't see. The clang of the raindrops hitting the car roof was deafening. I turned on the defrosters, which clouded the window before a tiny hole of clear glass formed down near the dashboard and then slowly moved up. The thunder rolled over us. This was what I'd always hated about Florida summers growing up.

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