Hand glued to her knife and ready to strike, should the moment suggest, Piper rolled her window down only a hair. She needed a rush of cool air to calm her nerves, but she wasn't about to stick her head out in the face of danger. The gentleman walked to the driver's seat, looking tired and harmless.
"Miss, you look like you could use a hand."
Just then something slammed hard against the passenger's side window. There stood a young boy to her right with a look of thrilled anticipation upon his face. His enormous grin and childish innocence was a comfort to her, so she turned to face the gentleman at her door.
"How did you guess?" she finally replied with a crooked smile.
The boy quickly ran to meet his father and Piper at the driver's side of the truck.
"Hi, I'm Jasper! Can we give you a lift?"
"Seeing as I can't get far with a dead pick-up and it's cold and dark as death itself, I'll take you up on the offer."
Jasper ran quickly to the only working car in sight and opened the front passenger's door. "Ladies ride shotgun, so I'll sit in the back."
Piper made her way inside and sat comfortably in the seat taking a farewell glance at her travel companion, Willy. Then she turned to face Dennis who was now buckling himself in the driver's seat. "You've done well with him. He's quite the young gentleman." Curious to see whether Jasper was flattered or not, she turned to the young gentleman in the back seat and gave him a quick wink as he buckled himself in place. Dennis started the ignition, turned the steering wheel so the crunch of gravel under the tires was heard, and made for their next destination.
"Something tells me that it'd be pointless to ask where we're going," Piper had said matter of factly, although she secretly hoped for an answer from the young gentleman.
Dennis looked puzzled because he had never found himself involved with others in the oddities of his world. He was just starting to accept what his late wife must have struggled with before she died. How could he explain his anomaly of a son to anyone?
Monday, July 12, 2010
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