by Corwin, John
He cleared his throat and raised an eyebrow.
I wondered if I might have over-embellished the details. "Uh, yeah, let me think. Oh, and then I headed to class but the bell rang and I found out we were evacuating."
"Did you hear anything on your way back to class?"
I shook my head. "No. Just the bells."
He narrowed his eyes and stared at me for several seconds. "Are you sure that's what happened?"
"That's exactly what happened." It took everything I had to look him in the eye and keep a straight face. For all I knew everything in my posture and voice was screaming, "Liar!" I swallowed and asked, "What's wrong? Why did we have to leave the school?"
"I'd like you to have a seat in this car until I say you can go." He opened the rear door of the patrol car and motioned me in.
"Am I under arrest for something?" My heart was trying to burst out of my ribcage at this point and it was all I could do not to run away at top speed.
"No, but I need to confirm your statement before I let you go back to your friends, okay?"
I nodded and got into the car. He shut it and walked across the barricaded road. Underborn met him halfway and spoke with him. My nerves splintered even further. No telling what the slimy back-stabbing assassin was saying.
I slumped in the seat and buried my face in my hands. I could kick the door off the hinges. Run away and never look back. My normal life was all but over anyway. With the sheriff and his co-conspirators dead, my friends Ash and Nyte would probably be safe from retaliation. But another part of me recoiled in horror at the thought of giving up on a life that, up until a month or so ago, had been painfully boring and normal. I'd been an overweight dyed-in-the-wool nerd with a hopeless crush on Katie Johnson, who I'd mistakenly believed to be the love of my life.
I shuddered at the memory, but still kind of missed being normal.
Screams and shouts reached my ears and tore me from my thoughts. I peered through the windshield of the patrol car but saw only the other car blocking off the high school entrance. I looked through the side window and saw students scrambling deeper into the church parking lot in a panicked mass. One of the cops standing in the middle of the road pulled his sidearm and aimed at something behind me.
I twisted in my seat as the officer fired and saw bullets pinging off the grill of a huge truck charging right at me.
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MEET THE AUTHOR
John Corwin has been making stuff up all his life. As a child he would tell his sisters he was an alien clone of himself and would eat tree bark to prove it.
In middle school, John started writing for realz. He wrote short stories about Fargo McGronsky, a young boy with anger management issues whose dog, Noodles, had been hit by a car. The violent stories were met with loud acclaim from classmates and a great gnashing of teeth by his English teacher.
Years later, after college and successful stints as a plastic food wrap repairman and a toe model for GQ, John once again decided to put his overactive imagination to paper for the world to share and became an author.
Connect with John Corwin online:
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Blog http://johncorwin.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/John_Corwin
Books by John Corwin:
Sweet Blood of Mine
Dark Light of Mine
No Darker Fate
The Next Thing I Knew
Outsourced
Seventh
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Overworld Chronicles Book 3
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Overworld Chronicles Book 3
