My best friend in high school, Lia: well her father died because of some tree spiker. I didn’t want it to happen to anyone else.”
“Alison, is that you?” asked the guy with the flashlight.
“You know her?” asked the lumberjack who had almost spiked her to the tree and scared her so bad she shit in her diaper.
“Yes, it’s me,” she said, “and I can prove I didn’t spike the trees. I brought a metal detector and a crowbar. I didn’t even have a hammer.”
“I found a crowbar. I didn’t find a metal detector or a hammer for that matter,” said another lumberjack. “I found a bag of bent nails though.”
“Yeah, I know her,” said the flashlight holding man. He stepped forward and Deborah saw that it was Derek Stevens. “She’s Lia’s friend that I went to prom with. You can put her down, Ogre.”