Excerpt from INSPIRALED, Chapter 7: Coco & Friends:
There were
three quick flashes. Pause. Then again- flash, flash, flash. Pause.
Flash, flash, flash. I told Mom
and Aunt Fab that I was going to take Bernie for a walk. I wanted to investigate. Bernie hesitated at the door like he didn’t
want to put forth the effort it took to go outside because he behaved less like
a dog and more like a person- the opposite of my brothers. It had cooled off quite a bit outside and
some clouds had rolled in, so I put on my charcoal colored pea coat over my
sour-milk-smelling-sweater, along with my gray Ugg boots and headed out the
door.
We wandered
around a little bit closer to the house than I wanted to because Bernie was a
pampered little Prince and not used to walking much further. Flash, flash, and flash- there it was again.
“C’mon, Bernie, let’s go see what that
is!” I coaxed.
I kept pulling on his
leash, but he didn’t budge. He had
already taken care of his business and clearly wanted to get back to the
couch. The grass and brush was tall and
thick and not exactly easy to walk through.
I picked him up and carried him further into the woods. It was darker inside the trees and harder to
see. The grasses continued to get taller
and thicker back there, and it took some work to keep hiking through it while
carrying Bernie. Who or what would be
out there? Bernie jumped out of my arms
and started sniffing around as we went through an even thicker cluster of
trees. Someone was there. I smelled fire. Bernie continued to be lazy.
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