Chapter Seven

We walked along for what seemed like ages to me before we got to a bridge. Not just your normal kind of bridge, one of those 100ft high seems to go on forever bridges.

"Oh shit that's high," I said as we came to a stop.

"Well we could go down to the route 192 bridge," Chris said scratching his head.

"What are you fucking crazy? You walk five miles down there, you got to walk five miles back, I mean that could take forever. If we cross here we can get to the same place in like five minutes." Teddy said starting to walk towards the bridge.

"Hey Ted wait a minute, we got to think this out," I said reaching out to stop him. He did stop and turned back to us and waited for someone to talk.

"But what if a train comes? Then what do we do?"

"Yeah if a train comes there's nowhere for us to goes," Vern said.

"Hell there isn't, we just jump," Teddy said as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.

"But Teddy it's a hundred feet" Chris said.

"Yeah Ted its about 100ft. And I aint like heights, i think we should walk around," I said, but the guys decided it was better to cross here and then. So off we went, Teddy at front followed by Chris, Me, Vern, then Gordie at the rear.

"Hey Chris, how's things at home lately?" I asked Chris, trying to keep my mind off the fact that we were over 100ft up in the air and the fact that if a train came it was either run for your life, or jump and hope you were still alive when you hit the bottom.

"Yeah they're alright, I mean dad's on a bit of a mean streak at the moment, like I was saying in the tree house, but you know, every things ok apart from that," Chris said.

"Oh," I couldnt think of anything better to say.

Chris turned to look at me, shit you look pale Alex, you ok?" he said.

"I will be when we get off this thing," I said, 'dont look down, dont look down' I kept repeating in my head. Easier said then done, you sort of had to look down to make sure you didnt step in the wrong spot, so i was sort of looking down, but not looking down properly.

"Just dont look down and you'll be fine" Chris said as he walked ahead again.

"TRAIN!!" I don't know who said it, but all I remember is running for my life.

I stumbled and fell onto the tracks for a few seconds before I got back up and was running again. I was the third off the track and stood with Chris and Teddy as we screamed for Gordie and Vern to hurry up. The train was within inches of them when Gordie pushe Vern off the track and jumped.

"Oh shit, you think they're ok?" I yelled over the noise of the train going past.

"Dunno, they should be, i mean it was only a like 3 metre fall. Wasnt it?" Teddy said.

The train passed and we all ran across to the tracks where they had jumped off. They were ok, a little shaken but looked fine.

"Hey, at least now we know when the next train was due," Chris said. Gordie glared up at Teddy.