Pet Sematary
“Louis put on his light jacket, zipped it up, and took the Civic keys from the peg on the wall.
“Where you going, Lou?” Rachel asked. She spoke without much interest. After supper she had begun crying again, and although her weeping was gentle, she had seemed incapable of stopping. Louis had forced her to take a Valium. Now she sat with the paper folded open to the barely started crossword puzzle. In the other room, Ellie sat silently watching “Little House on the Prairie” with Gage’s picture on... her lap.
“I thought I’d pick up a pizza.”
“Didn’t you get enough to eat earlier?”
“I just didn’t seem hungry then,” he said, telling the truth and then adding a lie: “I am now.”
That afternoon, between three and six, the final rite of Gage’s funeral had taken place at the Ludlow house. This was the rite of food. Steve Masterton and his wife had come with a hamburger-and-noodle casserole. Charlton had appeared with a quiche. “It will keep until you want it, if it doesn’t all get eaten,”MoreLess
“Where you going, Lou?” Rachel asked. She spoke without much interest. After supper she had begun crying again, and although her weeping was gentle, she had seemed incapable of stopping. Louis had forced her to take a Valium. Now she sat with the paper folded open to the barely started crossword puzzle. In the other room, Ellie sat silently watching “Little House on the Prairie” with Gage’s picture on... her lap.
“I thought I’d pick up a pizza.”
“Didn’t you get enough to eat earlier?”
“I just didn’t seem hungry then,” he said, telling the truth and then adding a lie: “I am now.”
That afternoon, between three and six, the final rite of Gage’s funeral had taken place at the Ludlow house. This was the rite of food. Steve Masterton and his wife had come with a hamburger-and-noodle casserole. Charlton had appeared with a quiche. “It will keep until you want it, if it doesn’t all get eaten,”MoreLess
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23He awoke at nine the next morning. Bright sunshine streamed in the bedroom’s east windows. The telephone was ringing. Louis reached up and snared it. “Hello?”
“Hi!” Rachel said. “Did I wake you up? Hope so.”
“You woke me up, you bitch,” he said, smiling.
“Ooooh, such nasty language, you bad old bear,” she said. “I tried to call you last night. Were you over at Jud’s?”
He hesitated for only the tiniest fraction of a moment.
“Yes,” he said. “Had a few beers. Norma was up at some sort of Thanksgiving supper. I thought about giving you a ring, but . . . you know.”
They chatted awhile. Rachel updated him on her family, something he could have done without, although he took a small, mean satisfaction in the news that her father’s bald spot seemed to be expanding at a faster rate.
“You want to talk to Gage?” Rachel asked.
Louis grinned. “Yeah, I guess so,” he said. “Don’t let him hang up the phone like he did the other time.”
Much rattling at the other end. Dimly he heard Rachel cajoling the kid to say hi, Daddy.
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