OCR Text |
Show 25. "What'd he say?" He said you probably didn't know a key hole from a . . ." JD grinned but didn't finish the sentence. "Oh, he did not!" "Yes he did. And you know what? I could tell he didn't for a minute believe anything we told him. Unless it was out there where that thing landed." "How's anyone going to believe us?" Stephanie asked. "Would you? I mean, if Chic told you he'd Seen a big red UFO sitting out in a field, would you believe him?" "I don't know," he answered. JD swung the car out on the state road and began the winding drive down Skull Mountain. Stephanie was probably right. Who'd believe them? He thought their folks would. He could hear his mother now, "If JD said it happened, it happened!" And Chic would try. He'd want to hear every detail about five times, then he'd go look it up in a book somewhere. In two weeks he'd be a UFO expert. But JD's list ended abruptly with those three. Now he wished he'd eaten that sandwich. His head was still hurting and he felt dizzy, like he hadn't slept for a week. He ran his hand over his face, trying to wipe off the prickly feeling. It was the same on his hands, too, like a rash or an irritation. Nothing he could see, but a sensation, peculiar, like shivers on the skin. "You know, Steph," he turned to his sister again, "the thing that nags me most is what happened after you left. It took you awhile to bring the Morrises over to our camp. What was I doing all that time?" Suddenly Stephanie's face brightened. "Hey. Remember when you fell off Petunia? You forgot everything. You didn't even know you'd been on a horse afterwards." "Accident amnesia," JD labelled it for her. "But I didn't fall this time, that I know of." "Maybe you just blacked out. You got too close and you blacked out. Maybe the UFO zapped you with a ray or something." "Yeah, yeah," he said sarcastically, but he'd thought of that too. "Can you remember taking another picture?" "No. That's the funny part. I can't remember anything but running toward it. I could see the lights throbbing, from one side to the other, I think." |