The Tale of Sawney Bean (Complete Novella) Read Free

much I liked her but we had only met twice
and here she was standing telling me she had murdered her aunt and
uncle. I know they might have deserved it but the fact she came
back here and risked getting caught just to ask me to come along
was a massive thing. She must have felt the connection I felt too
or did she just need someone to come along? She didn’t seem to be
the ‘need anyone’ type.
     
    “Where would we
go?” I asked
     
    “I don’t
know.”
     
    “What was your
plan?”
     
    “I didn’t have
one, just to kill them then leave. I just didn’t want them to hurt
me anymore”
     
    I wondered at
this point if Sarah was maybe a little slow but it was hard to tell
as she said so little and I really didn’t know her. She seemed very
capable though.
    What could I
say to that? I knew if I decided to go I wouldn’t be missed. My
parents barely even knew I was there any more and no one was going
to miss Sarah. People would probably be more worried about the
tavern not opening so the bodies would be discovered pretty quickly
but maybe everyone would assume whoever murdered the inn keepers
had taken Sarah. I doubted anyone would expect her of committing
the double murder when she was such a tiny frail creature. We would
have a good chance at a head start but where would we go?
     
    We sat in
silence for a long time. I looked her over and the fire in her eyes
didn’t die down. She was 12 years old and I kept expecting her to
break down crying or fly into a panic but there was nothing. She
was as calm as could be apart from the eyes. I could tell this was
a girl who had lived in her head for a while now and I suspected
she might stay there but I knew there was nothing left in this town
for me and I knew whatever happened that I felt good anytime I was
around Sarah so I knew I was going with her. Once again I thought
to myself where could we possibly go and not be found?

Chapter 5
     
    We spent a long
time that day just sitting in the woods saying nothing. I’m not too
sure what Sarah was thinking about but all I could think about was
where we would go and how we would survive. I kept going over it in
my head and thinking that we both pretty much provided for
ourselves anyway and the more I thought about it the less it seemed
like we would be leaving behind but we were both only 12. I didn’t
know how we would find somewhere to stay or how we would
travel.
     
    Sarah locked
her eyes on mine and studied me for a long time. “So you’ll come?”
She asked.
     
    “Yes. I’ll go
with you. Do you have no idea at all of where we will go or how we
will live?” I asked her still feeling worried although my mind was
already made up.
     
    “Well I think
we should hide out for a while. I don’t know where but I think it’s
best if we aren’t seen around town.”
     
    We went back to
silence. As always at this time of year the woods were quiet. It
felt like we were the only two people in the world but it didn’t
feel the same as the last two days where I felt like I didn’t have
a care in the world. Today I felt like I had the weight of the
world weighing me down. There was still nowhere else I would have
rather been than with Sarah but now I worried she might get caught
and hung or that if I was found with her I might even get the
blame.
     
    I started
thinking of places I had been that were quiet. I thought of various
towns I had visited and all the places around our town that no one
really goes then it came to me, the cave. We could hide out there
for a bit and no one would ever find us but how long we could stay
there I didn’t know.
     
    I spent the
next few minutes telling Sarah about the cave and how my
grandfather would take me there. I explained how no one ever came
there but that we would be trapped there over night when the tide
came in but all she said was that meant no one could get in either.
She seemed to think it was perfect.
     
    I remembered I
had some sandwiches I had made us but didn’t think