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Evil In Shadows

Things are great. Everything is looking up. Reaching a crossroad, I put my foot on the brakes, but nothing happens. Panic rises in me. I look at Jackson, turning the corner, grateful there are no cars.  

“The brakes aren’t working, Jackson.” My voice is panicked, my legs shaking, unsure what to do.

His laugh throws me. Does he think this is a joke?  I have already crashed a car once this month.  

“Jackson, I mean it. What the hell do I do?”

He looks up at me now. Seeing the panic in my eyes, his whole body shifts. “Right, change gears, slowly, keep dropping until your in second and move your foot off the clutch slowly.”

I do as he says, moving my foot off the clutch slowly, unsure of what ‘slowly’ means.  

“Good, I am going to pull the hand brake. We should be going slowly enough that it doesn’t throw us off the road.” Watching as his hand grips it, I close my eyes, not wanting to see.

“Alena,

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