BLOODY HORIZON

CHAPTER THIRTY NINE

°°° Welcome to the Family °°°

• Kingsley Street, Northwest Philadelphia •

Under the illumination of the moon, the street was calm, with people walking home from wherever they were coming from.

Almost every three minutes, someone would walk by with a dog or two. They were mostly coming from the Roxborough dog park. Amongst them were the attention-stealing trio. Sean, Karen, and the grey German Shepherd hybrid, Nuke.

It was almost quarter past six. Although they had left the park at around forty-five minutes past five, August Woodman had gotten them to drop by his stepmother’s diner, which was a five-minute walk away from the dog park.

They’d spent roughly fifteen minutes sharing experiences, and August was really cool. He was two classes ahead of them and three years older than Sean, but he didn’t behave like they’d expected a teenager would. He was rather mature and understood that age wasn’t really important when making friends.

August had told th