Janus the Arrival (The Janus Trilogy Book 1) Read Online Free PDF

pleaded.  
     
  ‘Listen! I’ve seriously been saving up for just such an occasion as
this, so please don’t spoil it for me babe! It really is my treat.’
        
Janus flushed as he felt as if the customers were staring at him, and having
thanked the restaurant staff for such a fantastic time, they finally set off
into the fresh night air. It was far too early to go straight home. They also
felt extremely full up and decided they needed to walk it off for a while.
Therefore, they thought it best to take the path towards the railway
embankment, where they eventually huddled together on the grass. They sat and
stared at the world through rose coloured glasses, while making all sorts of
plans for a future together and stopping to kiss every now and again. Amanda
gradually started to get a little cold as the night began to draw in, and so
they eventually stood up and took the short cut home across the tracks. It was
something they’d done a good many times in the past and never really thought
about the dangers involved. Janus naturally charged ahead, chatting away about
how much he’d enjoyed the meal, but Amanda stopped halfway across to blow her
nose for some strange reason, so she wasn’t really taking too much notice of
her surroundings. Unaware that the set of points she stood between were about
to change for an oncoming express train, she quickly realised her mistake by
the distinct click of a trackside relay, which was immediately followed by the
hiss of escaping air.   This caused the
heavy metalwork beneath her to shift sideways, and in doing so, it
automatically clamped her foot tightly between its heavy jaws. The terrified
young woman let out an awful scream as the pressure of the metal rails crushed
her limb and emitted an awful sound of splintering bone. Amanda struggled with
all her might, but the bleeding stump that had been her foot just a few seconds
before, refused to come loose from the tangled remains of her shoe, which had
stuck fast in the track below.   
        Hearing the scream, Janus instantly turned
and thought she was messing around at first. He honestly thought that she was
playing one of her silly jokes, but the look on her face told a completely
different story before everything in his head became slightly dazed. It didn’t
make any sense. He pictured the whole event happening in his mind just moments
before it was literally about to occur. Janus ran back towards his girlfriend
as fast as his legs would carry him, with tears streaming down his eyes as he
shouted out her name. He’d already realised the speeding train would beat him
to her and there was nothing that he could do to stop it.
       
 In the instant before she died, the terrified young woman had still
managed to observe a strange look in her boyfriend’s eye’s just as the train
ripped into her body and tore her apart. Janus closed his eyes hoping to
block out the whole thing, especially as he’d gotten so close. He felt
extremely sick and was totally unable to breathe before collapsing to the
ground, where his face became buried in the damp leaves as he cried out
Amanda’s name again and again. How the hell would he be able to continue on
without her?
      
 Having finally found the strength to stand again, Janus noticed something
white lying just beside the trackside. He immediately reached down to pick it
up, and that was the moment when he swore that nothing so precious would be
taken away from him ever again. The solemn figure left the scene firmly holding
a silken handkerchief bearing the initials A.R. up against his face. This,
along with all the loving memories he retained, was all that remained of their
love; a love that had been doomed from day one according to his damned parents.

 
    Misadventure
was finally declared, following several weeks of intense police investigations.
Both sets of parents had to shake off a whole deluge of reporters, which
brought back many distant memories to Emma and