Foggy Lake

by TheRedRidingHood

You can never go home again. That's what Tim Gutterson has known since he bailed on his home town at 17. Now he has to go back, for the funeral of a child and old suspicions are stirring up the bad blood between Tim and the residents of his old home town. Sent along to keep an eye on Tim, Raylan Givens is, for once, along for someone elses ride, trying to keep up and figure out jus

4. Chapter 4

Tim was 12 and he was lonely but he'd die before he would admit that. When Meredith Rodham walked the long walk up the road to the house to ask him to come with him for her birthday, he was honestly confused. He had a few 'friends', people he spoke to, maybe even occasionally ate lunch in the general vicinity of. But real friends who he had plans to see every day of the summer were not something he was familiar with. To be asked, specifically invited to someone elses birthday was strange for him, strange enough to suspect there was some sinister motive behind it, and he called her out to her face.

But she insisted. And Tim could read people and he could do it very well and he couldn't see the lie he thought she was telling him.

So, cautiously, he agreed. And took a short cut from his house down into town and when they reached the built up settlement of homes and stores Meredith turned a corner and they began to walk to Millers General Store.