Stranger Nights

Chapter 23

There was only one way to get out of Roanoke. Right in front of the church there is a path clearing a way through the woods. Follow that path until you come upon a fork in the road. Take a left and you will find yourself in the field of crops. Take a right and you will be led on to an old abandoned highway. Follow that highway and you should be in another village in a couple of days, depending on which way you go.

This what Henry, Freddy, and Charlotte were thinking about as they stared down at a lifeless Oliver Martinez.

"You killed him." Henry breathed. His eyes were so wide they looked like they were about to pop out of his skull. Freddy and Henry both stood over the Spanish boy while Charlotte kneeled down beside him checking his pulse.

"No, he's alive." Charlotte said removing her fingers from his neck.

"That just makes everything worse."

When the three arrived there was no one home. That had guessed as much. They had just been threatened to go to jail if they even stepped foot in places like this. They were surprised a bit though that they had gotten here before Aaeesha had.

"Don't touch anything." Freddy told the Bakers. So they didn't, instead they say on the couch quietly making little conversation. Eventually, Freddy went to go to the bathroom in the makeshift tattoo parlor. Oliver had not seen the door because he had checked the room rather quickly. Then Henry got up and started to walk around and Charlotte laid down on the couch. Those actions,for whatever reason, hid them from Oliver's sight. Now that I think about it the poor boy probably had even poorer eyesight. Anyway, when Freddy walked in he saw a Oliver Martinez staring down at a very wide eyed Henry Baker. He wasted no time grabbing a slim green vase and slamming against Oliver's head. Those are the events that led up to this moment.

"What do we do?" Henry asked slowly taking his inhaler out of his pocket.

"Wait, I suppose." Freddy answered. Henry nodded breathing in the spray from his inhaler.

So they waited. Never once moving their feet. Never once removing their eyes away from the Spanish boy.

That is until the person they had originally been waiting for appeared in the doorway.

"What the hell!" Aaeesha screamed. From behind her Ginger Peterson looked at them in confusion. The three of them stared at her unable to come up with words to describe the situation they found themselves in.

"Is that Oliver Martinez!" she yelled frantically. They all nodded at once. "Did you hit him in the head with a vase?"

"Yeah?" Freddy choked out. Her eyes went from shock to realization fast.

"We're screwed."

They nodded again.