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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmPet Sematary and you gonna put him in the shade by that big deadfall. Then you gonna come back andsay it’s done.’“I asked him what good that would do, and Stanny told me to stay awake that night and come out whenhe threw a stone against my window. ‘And it be midnight, boy, so if you forget Stanny B. and go tosleep, Stanny B. gonna forget you, and it’s goodbye dog, let him go straight to Hell!”Jud looked at Louis and lit another cigarette.“It went just the way Stanny set it up. When I got back, my dad said he’d put a bullet in Spot’s head tospare him any more suffering. I didn’t even have to say anything about the Pet Sematary; my dad askedme if I didn’t think Spot would want me to bury him up there, and I said I guessed he would. So off Iwent, dragging my dog in a grain sack. My dad asked me if I wanted help, and I said no because Iremembered what Stanny B. said.“I laid awake that night—forever, seemed like. You know how time is for kids. It would seem to me Imust have stayed awake right around until morning, and then the clock would only chime ten or eleven.A couple of times I almost nodded off, but each time I snapped wide awake again. It was almost as ifsomeone had shaken me and said, ‘Wake up, Jud! Wake up!’ Like something wanted to make sure Istayed awake.”Louis raised his eyebrows at that, and Jud shrugged.“When the clock in the downstairs hall chimed twelve, I got right up and sat there dressed on my bedwith the moon shinin in the window. Next I know, the clock is chimin the half-hour, then one o’clock,and still no Stanny B. He’s forgot all about me, that dumb Frenchman, I think to myself, and I’m gettinready to take my clothes off again when these two pebbles whap off the window, damn near hardenough to break the glass. One of them did put a crack in a pane, but I never noticed it until the nextmorning, and my mother didn’t see it until the next winter, and by then she thought the frost done it.“I just about flew across to that window and heaved it up. It grated and rumbled against the frame, theway they only seem todo when you’re a kid and you want to get out after midnight—” Louis laughed, even though he couldnot remember ever having wanted to get out of the house at some dark hour when he was a boy of ten.Still, if he had wanted to, he was sure that windows which had never creaked in the daytime would creakthen.“I figured my folks must have thought burglars were trying to break in, but when my heart quieted downI could hear my dad still sawin wood in the bedroom on the first floor. I looked out and there was StannyB., standin in our driveway and lookin up, swayin like there was a high wind when there wasn’t so muchas a puff of breeze. I don’t think he ever would have come, Louis, except that he’d gotten to that stage offile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (123 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM