Chapter 46 forty six

After talking with Rachel, Chad hung up the phone, put on his windbreaker, and walked across the road to Louis' house.At the crossing, he stopped and looked carefully for the truck that had brought it all, the goddamn truck. It's just that this is not the most fundamental reason. Chad could feel the magic tugging at him over there at the pet cemetery.The sound there used to be a kind of lullaby, comfort and a kind of dreamlike magic.But at this moment, the voice became deeper and more ominous, and it seemed to have a threatening meaning. The voice seemed to say, you, don't worry about this.

But Chad couldn't ignore it.He is too responsible to manage. Chad went to Louis' house and saw that Louis's Honda was gone in the garage, only the Ford station wagon was still there.The car was dusty and looked like it hadn't been used in ages, and Chad tried pushing on the back door of the house, which wasn't locked. "Louis?" Chad called.He knew Louis wouldn't answer, but Chad needed to break the dead silence in the house.Oh, old people start with old legs. Recently, he feels that his legs are often heavy and he walks awkwardly. After working in the garden for two hours, his back hurts, as if there is a drill on his left buttock, which hurts .

Chad starts to scour the house for the clues he has to find, feeling like the world's oldest burglar.He saw boxes of Gage's toys, boy's clothes in the closet under the bed or behind the door, and the crib still carefully propped up in Gage's room; Special attention, but there is still an unpleasant empty feeling in the house, as if it is waiting to be filled with some... oh, something. Maybe I should take a drive to Pleasant Cemetery, Chad thought, and see what's going on there, and I might even run into Louis, and I could buy him dinner or something. But it wasn't the good-looking cemetery in Bangor that was the danger. The danger was here, in this house, over there in the pet cemetery.

Chad left Lewis's house again and walked across the road to his own home.He took a can of beer from the refrigerator and went to sit in the living room by the bay window, from where he could see the Louis family house.He opened the beer and lit a cigarette.Little by little the afternoon passed.He's done this a lot over the years, thinking about what happened in the past. Morgan's bull Hanratty appeared in Chad's mind again. The bull's eyes were bloodshot, and he rushed towards everything he saw. Tree crashes.Before Morgan made up his mind to kill him, it had rotted almost every tree in the pasture where he was kept, and his own horns were cracked, and his head was bleeding.Morgan had been terrified himself when he killed it, and Chad felt that way now.

Chad drinks beer and smokes.It was getting dark, but he didn't turn on the light, and the cigarette butt slowly turned into a small red dot in the darkness.He was sitting there drinking, staring down the driveway of Louis's house, thinking that no matter where Louis came home from, he'd go over and talk to him for a while.Just be sure to keep Louis from doing things he shouldn't be doing. But he also felt that evil magic power seemed to come out from under the rocks, pulling him hard, as if saying to him: You, don't worry about this, don't worry about this, or you will be very, very sorry .

Chad tried not to ignore the thought, and he sat smoking and drinking, waiting.