He stood nodding, his hair flat against his scalp, rubbing his bandaged hand gently.When Al finished, Wayne shook his head. “So you don’t know who killed him? You haven’t any idea how he got in the boot?”“No idea whatsoever,” Eddy said. “So you see our dilemma. We can’t go to the police, yet we can’t leave the car with the body inside.”“We didn’t even kill the kid, yet we’re the ones stuck with him,” Al said. “That’s fucked, huh?”Wayne nodded slowly.Lightning flashed in the sky. Al and Eddy flinched and instinctively ducked their heads.Wayne gazed up at the brilliant light and grinned. For a moment the world was lit up like some great inferno. Then everything went back to darkness.“God, that scares me,” Al huffed out. “We’ll probably all be killed. We’re nuts going up in the mountains during a storm.”“Relax,” Wayne said. “Lightning only strikes the tallest objects. If we stay out from under tall trees, we should be okay.”“How reassuring,”
