Mason
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That should have made me feel better.
It didn't.
A few minutes later I saw my uncle's floodlights in the distance.
They looked like stadium lights compared to the dark around them.
He had everything on.
Porch lights, yard lights, garage lights.
His two dogs were going insane behind the fence.
I took the turn too fast and slid on the dirt road, then corrected and shot toward his driveway.
He was standing by the open gate holding a rifle.
My aunt was on the porch with a phone to her ear.
I pulled into the yard, and he slammed the gate behind me so hard the whole fence shook.
I put the car in park and just sat there.
I could not get my hands off the steering wheel.
My uncle came to my window and told me to unlock the door.
I did, but I still couldn't move.
He opened it and reached in like he was checking if I was hurt.
He said, Don't look back at the road.
Of course, because I'm an idiot.
I looked.
Out past the gate, just beyond the floodlights, there was something standing in the dirt road.