Дмитрий Леонтьев – Don't trust anyone (страница 12)

But at that moment he decided to trust Robert. He was riding behind him. To be more precise he was chasing him afraid to lose sight of him even for a second.

At last they found themselves near an abandoned cemetery, which happened to be the first cemetery in this city. The headstones looked old and dreadful.

“That’s here,” Robert announced taking his plastic bag out of the scooter basket.

“We can’t be long. You know my parents will be alarmed if I don’t come home to dinner,” Kevin declared looking at Robert.

“What I’m going to show you will be worth it. It’s even worth being punished by your parents,” Robert answered looking rather strange.

“Let’s go and show me what you’ve been jabbering about,” Kevin said with anticipation in his words.

The boys finally went into the ancient cemetery.

* * * * * *

They saw dilapidated stone monuments with worn-out letters in the names of their owners and olden black-and-white photographs with eerie faces, rickety wooden crosses covered with cobwebs, and dark tall trees with rustling leaves.

The setting sun could be hardly seen through the dense forest. Riding through the derelict graves Kevin had a feeling as if the black-and-white photos were staring at him. The place looked really creepy.

“Where are we going?” Kevin inquired.

But Robert, who had got off his scooter and was now carefully watching his steps walking in front of him, ignored his question and kept closely observing the graves.

“What are you looking for?” Kevin couldn’t help asking.

“A grave,” Robert responded.

“What grave?” Kevin was bursting with curiosity.

“Shut up!” Robert rudely requested. “You can wake it,” he added.

“What?! Why?!” Kevin asked nervously.

At that moment Robert suddenly stopped peering into the air.

“What’s up?” Kevin inquired.

“Shush!” Robert interrupted him putting his index finger to his lips.

“What?” Kevin asked again.

“It’s over there,” Robert answered at last and turned sideways.

Kevin realized that what his friend was about to do must be just a silly joke.

“Sorry, but I gotta go home,” Kevin said anxiously. “This is not fun anymore,” he added and felt his right foot get into a hole. The hole seemed rather deep and the foot kept sinking down.

“What the hell is this?” Kevin asked furiously trying to pull his leg out of the hole.

“This is a freshly dug grave,” Robert explained.

“What?” Kevin could not believe his ears.

“I’m so sorry, Kevin,” Robert apologized. “But this is part of the ritual,” he continued to tell.

“What ritual, freak?” Kevin asked. “What’s wrong with you?”

“I dug out this grave three days ago,” Robert said seriously.

“What is there in your bag?” Kevin requested.

“You’ll know real soon,” Robert answered.

“You’re scaring me, dude! What’s wrong with you?!” Kevin exclaimed.

“I want to demonstrate how to implement a ritual of resurrection from the dead,” Robert said proudly and carefully approached the grave. Then he bent down and picked up his black bag.

“Dude, what are you going to do?” Kevin asked again.

“Help me,” he heard Robert’s voice and then his moan.

Kevin saw Robert take lumps of soil with his bare hands and put them into the hole. He instantly began to do the same. He wanted to bury what had to be buried as fast as possible and leave this terrible place.

The ground was already hard and it was difficult to fill in the hole.

“Ok, done. Let’s get out of here,” Kevin said throwing the last lump of soil into the hole and wiping clean his hands.

Robert stood up and also wiped his hands with a napkin, which he had pulled out of his pocket.

“No,” he said. “We have a lot of work,” he added and looked at Kevin.

“What else?” Kevin asked feeling bewildered and afraid.

Robert pulled out a little package with white substance and began to draw a circle around the grave.

Kevin attentively looked at Robert. What he was doing hypnotized Kevin.

Inside the circle Robert drew a five-pointed star. And over them star he drew triangles and signed each one: earth, water, soul, fire, and air.

After that Robert sat down in the center of the circle on his knees and began to pray. Only what he was praying Kevin could not understand. It sounded as if he was speaking a foreign language.

Kevin was standing there thinking about his parents who should start worrying about him really soon. They would be saying and asking each other, “Where is Kevin? He promised to be home soon”. Then they would call him.

He was right. The mobile phone in his jeans pocket began to ring.

Kevin pulled it out and immediately answered, “Hello, mum!” The voice in the phone was asking him something and Kevin was only telling “Yea, we are almost here! Yep! Soon!”

Still holding the phone at his ear Kevin noticed his mate stand up and carefully step out of the circle. Robert began to wipe his jeans from the grave soil. Then he caught sight of Kevin.

Kevin shook his head as if saying, “We must be going now.” Without waiting for Robert’s reaction, Kevin turned around and came up to his scooter.

Suddenly he heard a creaking noise behind him and then the sound of trees falling. Kevin dared to turn around and noticed a weird creature slowly coming out of the thicket.

CHAPTER 6

“Why?” Robert yelled, “it’s too early!”

Kevin was standing staring at the scene in front of him and could not figure out whether he was dreaming or not.

From behind the thick bushes came out a person in a scary costume and a devilish mask.

“I asked you to be patient and wait for the signal,” Robert screamed. “Now you’ve ruined everything!”

“It must be a bad joke,” Kevin thought.

“But…,” a figure of a person spoke taking the mask off his face.

“What are you doing here, Stephen!” Kevin asked stunned.

“He is a complete fool,” Robert pronounced angrily. “We wanted to frighten you, have a fun night, but this scam ruined our plan,” he added.

“Sorry, guys,” Stephen answered, “but I wanted it to be over as soon as possible.”

“No way, dudes,” Kevin intervened. “It is a nasty joke, really.”

After a while he added, “How did you all come up with this stupid idea of bringing me here to scare to death? Stephen, how long have you been waiting for us here?”

“Robert came up with it a long time ago! At first we wanted to kid another classmate, Jake. You know, he is frightened of everything creeping or flying. But there was one problem: he doesn’t have any vehicles to ride so we had no idea how to lure him in here and make fun of it. And when Robert…”