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Author:Craig Shaw Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-24T16:00:00+00:00
Eighteen
It was almost impossible to see. A night fog had come up from the ocean and blanketed the hills above the beach in gray. Michael could barely make out the red taillights of the motorcycles in front of him on the road.
It must be well after midnight by now, late enough so they weren’t meeting any other traffic. Still, he was amazed at how fast they were all going through the middle of the fog. David was in the lead as usual, and he never slowed down until he got where he wanted to be.
David pulled to a stop up ahead. Michael and the other Lost Boys joined him. They had stopped by the edge of a bridge of some sort. Michael got off his bike to join the others, who stood on the edge of the embankment, where the bridge began. As Michael approached them he saw a pair of glistening rails close by David’s boots. The bridge must be a railroad trestle.
Michael saw David nod appreciatively at the fog.
“Perfect time,” was all their leader said. He walked out onto the trestle.
“What’s going on?” Michael asked.
David smiled at that. He looked back to the next Lost Boy in line.
“What’s going on, Marco?”
“I dunno.” Marco shrugged and turned to the next Lost Boy. “What’s goin’ on, Paul?”
“Who wants to know?” Paul asked.
“Michael wants to know,” David replied, his voice full of mock seriousness. The Lost Boys all laughed.
So they were going to make a joke of it again. Michael knew it was another one of David’s tests. David was looking for an easy way to get Michael’s goat, a way to get him mad and exclude him from the Lost Boys. Maybe even a way to keep him away from Star. Michael could take anything David could dish out.
The Lost Boys walked out onto the railroad trestle. Michael followed. Thick railroad ties, spaced a couple of feet apart, supported the track to either side. Michael stepped carefully from one tie to the next. There was nothing between the ties at all but air. The trestle seemed to cross a deep gorge. Michael hated to think what would happen if one of them slipped and fell. There was no way to tell how far below the chasm reached. The fog closed in again about twenty feet below.
Marco, Paul, and Dwayne were in the lead, well out onto the trestle by now. Then Marco disappeared. Michael stared through the fog, trying to make out what was going on. Paul and Dwayne dropped between the ties; they just stepped out into the air and fell. What were they doing? David didn’t seem to react one way or the other. Michael knew it was hopeless to ask.
David looked back at him.
“Now you, Michael.”
With that thought Michael knew what David was doing now. This was another one of his tricks, like riding his bike through the flames, something that looked deadly but was nothing more than a simple stunt.
“Do it, Michael,” David ordered. “Now!”
Well, if that’s the way David wanted it, it was all right with Michael.
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