The Red Moon: Moon Rising by J. M. Lyons Read Free Book Online Page B

hurrying toward the front of the house.
     
We watched Tucker's silhouette disappear behind the corner
     
of the house.
Jon walked with me toward the front yard as
     
Tucker's truck started up with a revving engine.
"I'll come by
     
tomorrow to pick you up." Jon said still smiling. "That sounds like a
     
plan." I replied, as I hugged him tightly around his waist.
     
I jumped into Tucker's truck, as he peeled out of the driveway.
"So, I saw you talking with Kris earlier." I said, looking over at him
     
with my wondering eyes. His eyes were narrowed onto the dark
     
road, deep in concentration. "Um, yeah I was, but I don't know.
     
She wants more than just a relationship and I'm not sure if I want
     
the same thing." He said, still glaring at the road. "Well, at least
     
Nadia wasn't chasing after you tonight." I laughed. "Now that
     
would have been a problem." Tucker chuckled, as he kept his
     
eyes on the road.
     
"So, what did Lily tell you on the phone?" I asked, wondering
     
what went wrong after I had left. "She said something about dad
     
wasn't doing too good; but she got cut off,because the next thing I
     
knew the phone went dead." He said, screeching his truck tires
     
with every turn. "Gee Tucker slow down." I demanded, as my
     
head bumped the window. I rubbed my head and looked back
     
over at Tucker, who looked so worried, and scared. "I can't; I just
     
have this funny feeling that something really bad is going on." He
     
said, as he sped down the road.
     
Before we reached the house we could see the swirling red
     
and white lights of the ambulance and cop cars. The front door
     
was wide open with the screen door hanging off it's hinges. "Dad."
     
Tucker yelled, as he quickly jumped out of the truck, and ran up
the driveway toward the ambulance. I must have been taken back
     
by the emergency people there, because I didn't move at all. I just
     
sat there staring at everyone rushing around the front yard.
     
A police officer stopped him when he got closer. "Lily's in the
     
house."
He said, pointing toward the house.
"Where's my dad?"
     
He demanded, looking over at the ambulance. "We're gonna take
     
him to the hospital but there seemed to have been an accident."
     
Officer Green said, holding Tucker by the shoulders.
I slowly got
     
out of the truck and walked quickly up the driveway.
     
"Tucker, what's happening?" I asked confused; as I got closer
     
to everyone I kept looking around. "Mia, Lily's in the house and
     
we're gonna take your dad to the hospital. Why don't we all go
     
inside." Officer Green said tugging on my arm.
He and my father
     
worked on a few cases together before, and and he was Nadia's
     
uncle.
     
"Dad." I yelled out, trying my hardest to get some kind of view
     
in through the small little window of the ambulance. "He's fine, we
     
just need to run a few tests to make sure everything's really ok.
     
Then we need to get him cleaned up." The medical responder
     
said, as he quickly jumped into the drivers seat.
     
I looked around at the front of the house, then watched as the
ambulance quickly drove off into the darkness of the night, as the
     
emergency lights shined off the tree tops. "Lily." I yelled out,
     
running up the old weathered porch, then through the broken front
     
door.
Seeing how everything looked from the outside, I got very
     
worried.
     
When I got into the house I gasped; as I slowly looked
     
around, taking in what everything looked like. Lily sat quietly at the
     
table. She looked so scared; she was shaking and crying. I was
     
shocked to find the house completely trashed.
At first, when
     
Tucker told me we had to leave the party, I figured that she and
     
dad got into a fight or something like that; but this; this just wasn't
     
normal.
Everything about it wasn't normal at all.
     
The couch was tossed, and dirty it looked like someone threw
     
dirt and grass on it.
The coffee table was broken in half,