Novel & Cerita The Thinning

I heard her fake a sob and I knew she was wiping her fake tears behind me. At the speed of light, I turned to her and her face came into view. She was a girl with a long blonde hair packed into a bun, small eyebrows, doe eyed, a button nose and a thin pink lips. All in all, she looked like a kitten. “I'm not going anywhere after school,” I whispered timidly, making her snort and shift her eyes away from me. I sighed deeply, wanting to talk her out of it when I heard Mrs. Finn once again.

I feel like we’re all holding our breaths and silently praying they give up soon, as we carry on forward at breakneck speed and Meadow stays with her eyes glued to the road and her foot pressed hard on the gas. “Thinner means it’s maybe not going to be much longer, right?” Carmen breaks the tense silence and leans forward as though she is peering outside to try and see any kind of end to the smog and I sigh listlessly. “I don’t know. The mountain is miles to the north, and it reached there. So if it does thin we have miles of it yet.” I point out in deflation and rest my head against the frame of the window, peering out into endless mist for miles.