Author: Eden Beck
Category: Paranormal
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I’m too lost in my thoughts as I’m leaving to notice the boys loitering outside later until I nearly run into them. Or, more accurately, nearly run into the crowd of girls trying their best to flirt with them.
From the looks of things as I hurry past, mumbling a hasty apology, the boys are about as interested in them as they are a swarm of pesky gnats.
One of the boys calls something out as I pass, but I don’t hear what he says the first time. Thinking he’s calling out to someone else, I keep walking.
“Hey, Sabrina … I’m talking to you!”
I stop in my tracks and turn around and point one finger into the middle of my chest, like even I am confused who I am.
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“Me?”
Kaleb takes a step closer to me as his brothers keep a solid eye on us. “Yeah, I’m talking to you. You need a ride home?” he asks again. His eyes shift to the parking lot behind me, and beyond that, the gas station down the road. “That was something this morning, wasn’t it?”
All around him, I see a flurry of disappointed looks.
I should thank him for that, all of them, but I can’t seem to get the words out.
“How do you know my name?” I finally manage, even though all I can focus on is how he keeps getting closer to me, and how each step seems to make me feel a little more lightheaded than the last.
Kaleb takes in a deep breath and chuckles. “There’s like fifty people that go here, and you’re the new girl. Everyone knows your name.”
“Oh,” I mutter, not sure what else to say.
It sure didn’t seem like that earlier. Compared to you, I was invisible.
I don’t say as much. I just keep staring like a dumb deer in headlights.
“So …” Kaleb starts again, after a long pause, “do you need a ride? My brothers and I can take you.”
He’s standing so close to me now, I swear I can feel the heat coming off him. I remember the way he glanced back at me earlier after he and his brothers basically saved me from the creep at the gas station. That look on his face then … it’s almost exactly the same as the way he’s looking at me now.
There’s an intensity there that makes heat rise in my own body. I don’t think I have the ability to turn him down, even if I wanted to. I get ready to open my mouth and accept his offer, probably a little too eagerly if I’m being honest with myself.
Before I can accept, however, I catch a glimpse of someone walking down the steps of the school behind them, someone that looks an awful lot like my father. I know it isn’t him. It can’t be him.
I know it’s just new-town jitters, but that doesn’t stop bil
e from rising in the back of my throat.
“Are you okay?”
Kaleb’s voice sounds distant this time, but I can’t bring myself to look at him. My eyes are glued to the figure approaching, the outside of my vision growing dark and my breaths rapid.
And then just as quickly as the panic descends, I finally get a good look at him.
Of course, it isn’t my father. Even from a distance, it’s obvious. But by the time I’ve realized this and I’ve regained the motor function to speak, the moment has passed. Sure, it wasn’t my father, but it could have been.
Any day. Any hour.
If I’m not careful, he’ll find us.
The thought of it sours in my stomach. All I want is to be away from here. Now.
“Uh, I have to go,” I say, trying to compose myself. “Thanks anyway.”
I spin around on my heels and take off in a half-walk, half-run across the parking lot and toward the path to the woods. Once I get inside the cover of trees, I realize how that just now must have looked. I clammed up, lashed out, ran away. And all Kaleb did was ask me if I wanted a ride.
It doesn’t matter, I tell myself as I shake my head to clear my thoughts. I shouldn’t be getting close to anyone anyways. There’s no point in it. I would just have to leave them behind as soon as we have to run again.