Teaser Tuesday - CLOCKWISE

It's Teaser Tuesday for the launch week of CLOCKWISE!  Here's the third and final one. Let me know what you think. Oh, and I'm over at Laurel at Laurel’s Leaves  where she is interviewing me. Find out who I’d choose if I cast the main characters in a movie and more...

           I gaped at Nate, aghast.

           I spun around and called out to heaven, “You’ve got to be kidding! As if things aren’t bad enough, you have to let him come along?”

        I paced in small circles, trampling the grass, which was very uncharacteristic of me when I returned. I was usually poised, on my toes, ready for anything.

       “What just happened?” Nate said, still calm. Sure he was calm now, but just wait. “Is this some kind of practical joke?”

        I stopped pacing when my pointy heels sunk into a mossy part of the forest floor and faced him.  I could see the wheels behind his eyes working; he was trying to figure out how his buddies had gotten him to the middle of the woods without him realizing it. Also, probably, why it was suddenly mid afternoon.

       “Um, no,” I squeaked out, still trying to process that I was back in 1860, and Nate Mackenzie was there right in front of me!

       “Okay, guys, come out now.”  His eyes darted from tree to tree. I could see the panic forming. “Did they put something in my punch?” His voice took on that high edge that accompanies confusion.

         “Oh, no,” I moaned. My dress. I was wearing a totally inappropriate dress. And high heels! Could this day get any worse?

          “What’s the matter?”

          “Nothing, it’s my shoes.” I took off one shoe and slammed the heel on a nearby boulder.

         “Casey! What are you doing?”

         “I’m, (bang) knocking (bang) off (bang) my heels.” Success. I started with the next one.

         “Why?”

        “Because,” I said in a voice suggesting he should know, though I knew there’s no way he could know, “these are totally inappropriate for what we need to do next.”