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worry about than whether or not she believed him.
     
    “It look it’s getting late,” he said looking
at the darkening sky. “I think I should probably get back to my
mom’s house before she sends out a search party. We’ve been talking
for longer than I thought plus it is only my first night back so I
guess I should at least go spend some of my time with her.” As he
was talking he slowly began backing up hoping she would get the
hint and let him escape before he said something that really would
hurt her feelings. Not that it mattered. He definitely wouldn’t be
hooking up with her while he was home, so it didn’t really matter
what she thought of him, but he was trying to be nice.
     
    She must’ve understood because she quickly
said “Oh yeah, I understand. I really need to get back to work
anyways.” She turned to go and Jim thought hoped he was free but
unfortunately he wasn’t that lucky. After taking only a few steps
she stopped and looked back over her shoulder.
     
    “If you need to talk to someone or just want
to, you know, go out or something, you can give me a call,” she
offered sweetly. “I’m in the book or you can, you know, just come
by here. I’m usually here if I’m not at home. Don’t be afraid to
call me day or night. I’m here for you if you need me. Ok?”
     
    He hesitated before replying. “I don’t know
Maria. I think I’ll be ok. I’m only going to be here for a few days
and I’ll probably be pretty busy. But, uh, you know, if I get a
chance you’ll be the first person I call… We’ll see what happens.
But if we don’t get a chance to get together, it was really good
seeing you again.” As he finished he turned and started walking
away so she wouldn’t have a chance to say anything else.
     
    He almost felt bad. He hoped he hadn’t hurt
her feelings too much by being so abrupt. He guessed her heart
might be in the right place but after hearing her rendition of “The
Killing of Tommy” he didn’t think he wanted to be around her too
much. Something about her was just a little bit weird. She seemed
like she just wanted to help him get through everything but you
never knew with people like her.
     
    He was about to turn around and check to see
if she was watching him walk away when he heard an engine roar to
life behind him. Stifling the urge to spin around he casually
glanced over his other shoulder, the one he would see Maria over if
she was there, and looked to see what was going on. The guy who’d
been sitting in the parking lot fish tailed out onto the road and
squealed tires as he raced away into the fading light leaving
nothing but the smell of burnt rubber behind. Wondering what that
had all been about, Jim noticed almost as an afterthought that
Maria was nowhere to be seen. He again had a strange feeling that
he knew the guy acting like a race car driver but just couldn’t
place his name.
     
    Shaking his head he put it aside for another
time. He kept walking towards his mother’s house trying to figure
out what exactly might be going on as he went. He hadn’t found Rob
but that was only a matter of time. Then he hoped he’d get some of
the answers for all the questions that were floating around in his
head.
     
     
     
    4
     
     
    Jim woke with a start the next morning
stifling a scream that was trying to rip its way from his throat.
The nightmare he’d been having only moments before caused him a
slight disorientation which panicked him even more. Images from it
kept superimposing themselves over the familiar objects in his
room. One minute he was looking at a chair the next minute it was a
bush. He was still trying to orient himself when he looked at a
poster that had been on his wall since he was ten but instead of
the familiar movie star looking down at him it was a beast with
dark red smoldering eyes. Stifling yet another scream he shook his
head and looked again. This time everything was normal. Well,
almost everything.
     
    Unfortunately he was