Jaden was resting against the seat, eyes closed. Did ghosts sleep? He wasn’t really a ghost. He wasn’t dead. But he was dead, here. Never mind. This was too confusing.
Slowly the traffic disappeared until we only saw the occasional car. It was actually pretty nice without a bunch of vehicles clogging up the road. Rebecca drove a lot faster than I expected.
Suddenly Jaden bolted upright in the back seat. “You hear that?”
“Huh?” I asked. Everyone else might have been able to doze off, but my mind was still going over everything that had happened today, trying to figure out what the whys and hows, trying not to panic on the hows. So far, no luck. On either front.
“Do you hear something?” Jaden asked slower, like I was an i***t.
“No, what?”
“What, what?” Nina asked. I probably sounded cr
