Part
1
(Night out)
Friday, May 16th, 2006
It
was like every other night I've had in the last years. Always crazy
and unplanned, as spontaneous as life itself. Usually a downtown
club,(fake i.d's always in hand) or maybe we'd walk around "The
Good Streets",(two extremely old roads engulfed with suburban
preppy girls in need of a good time) but tonight...I had something
a bit different in mind...
I drove with Spinner in my car, the
roof down, the wind flowing continuously through my hair, and all the
blazes of lights coming off from the streets are reduced to a blur as
we pass them by.
Craig's eyes darted from the kilometer track to
Spinner. Craig had a mischievous smile on his face.
He let out an
excited breathe.
Craig:110...
Spinner, his arm draped over
the right car door, smiled at Craig.
Spinner:Faster.
Vrrrrooom.
My foot pushed harder against the pedal. 115...123...125. One
hundred-twenty five kilometres an hour..and it was only the
beginning.
As I said, on this night I had something different in
mind. I had a club to go to; Shifter's, a place where a girl waited
for me, someone I haven't seen in what was close to 2 years...but it
wasn't the one who left me to bleed.
Craig started laughing
wildly as the speedometer hit 130. Spinner, smiling and as stupid as
Craig faced Craig, and then Craig turned his head to Spinner,
laughing together. The car sped down a deserted highway, only lit by
the few lampposts, they almost never saw it coming.
WHAM!
The
car hurled to a thundering stop, it tilted and swerved to the right,
Craig shut his eyes tight, and Spinner, in his his pre-drunk
excitement yelled and screamed with a smile like a roller-coaster
passenger. The car came to a halt, swerved to the left side of the
road, dust kicked up around them, slowly sifting through the air.
Craig opened his eyes, breathing heavy and shaking a small bit.
Spinner and Craig simultaneously turned their heads to eachother.
They both broke into laughter.
Craig's words broke in throughout
the laughter
Craig:What - was -that!
Spinner shook his head
at me, as both out laughs died.
Spinner: (laughs) I don't know...
He turned his head to the right, trying to spot a victim on the
road.
Spinner:I don't (turns back to Craig) see anything...
Craig's torso rose up above his seat.
Craig:Let's check it
out.
They both exited the car, Spinner getting up to the hood of
the car,as Craig, getting out to the back of the car,(looking for an
animal underneath it) bent down.
Craig:Eh..I don't...see much.
Spinner:Whoh!
He was crouching down the front of the car, his
hand petting the large dent.
Craig shot up.
Craig:What is it?
Spinner: (knocks on the metal exterior) Man...there's a huge
dent on your car. What the hell did you hit?
Craig raced to the
front, his eyes widened once he got there. The dent was more like
crater. Maybe the size of a large t.v or bicycle. In fact, the dent
had impressions in the size of a bicycle netting, or a thin, large
animal with prong-like limbs.
Craig:What was that?
Spinner
was now frantically searching the dark road, then stopped when he
reached the outer ditch on the other side of the road. He stood
absolutely still, so I came to his side.
Craig:What? What are yo-
Craig stopped and started, his mouth now ajar.
Bleeding,
breathing very fast in the strands of tattered grass, lay a silver
white animal, it's fangs visible through it's open mouth, panting.
Spinner slapped down hard on Craig's shoulder.
Spinner:Wow...Craig The Wolf Slayer.
