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Show 50. "Am I terrible?" Kay made a repentant face. "Garth told me that JD is taking this very hard. Maybe I can help some way." Stephanie believed her. She looked concerned. "The thing that worries me most," Stephanie began between bites, "is that it's preying on JD's mind. I can get scared, too, all over again, by thinking about it, but I . . ." she groped for a way to say it, then ended lamely, "just don't think about it all the time. He does!" "Maybe JD's experience was different enough from yours," Kay suggested. "It was! He had the amnesia. I'm sure that bothers him. And the camera disappearing without a trace. He got a lot closer than I did, trying to get a picture. Maybe he's suffering from radioactivity or something we don't know anything about." "The people who came over from the other camp," Kay began, rearranging her plate and glass. "Did you get their address so they could confirm seeing that scorched area?" Stephanie's face fell. "No," she said. Neither she nor JD had thought of that. "They had Colorado license plates," she remembered hopefully, then realized how ridiculous that sounded. It was like saying they had brown eyes. "I'm not sure they believed us," Stephanie added sadly. "At least JD thinks they didn't." "But they saw the place it landed," Kay persisted. "It was a perfect circle, Mrs. Eagleton. And the ground had been torn up, but smoothly, like someone had taken a giant spoon and scooped up the grass and dirt then pressed it down again every which-way. I even thought it smelled strange, like it was burned, you know." "Then someone even now could see the circle." "JD would like to go back. But I wouldn't," Stephanie shivered. "Does JD still think he was taken inside the UFO?" "Does he what?" Kay looked puzzled. "He told Garth he was in_ it." "In the UFO?" The hair stood along Stephanie's arms. "Did he say that?" "Well . . . yes," she cleared her throat, "I hope I'm not telling |
