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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmgoing to die around here.“Honey,” Louis said, “we’re all close. All the time.”It was milk that had almost surely caused the fresh round of vomiting. Gage had awakened aroundmidnight, she said, an hour or so after Louis had gone to sleep, with his “hungry cry,” and Rachel hadgotten him a bottle. She had drowsed off again herself while he was still taking it. About an hour later,the choking spell began.No more milk, Louis said, and Rachel had agreed, almost humbly. No more milk.Louis got back downstairs at around a quarter of two and spent fifteen minutes hunting up the cat.During his search, he found the door which communicated between the kitchen and basement standingajar, as he suspected he would. He remembered his mother telling him about a cat that had gotten quitegood at pawing open old-fashioned latches, such as the one on their cellar door. The cat would justclimb the edge of the door, she’d said, and pat the thumb plate of the latch with its paw until the dooropened. A cute enough trick, Louis thought, but not one he intended to allow Church to practice often.There was, after all, a lock on the cellar door, too. He found Church dozing under the stove and tossed itout the front door without ceremony. On his way back to the hide-a-bed, he closed the cellar door again.And this time shot the bolt.29In the morning, Gage’s temperature was almost normal. His cheeks were chapped, but otherwise he wasbright-eyed and full of beans. All at once, in the course of a week it seemed, his meaningless gabble hadturned into a slew of words; he would imitate almost anything you said. What Ellie wanted him to saywas “shit.”“Say shit, Gage,” Ellie said over her oatmeal.“Shit-Gage,” Gage responded agreeably over his own cereal. Louis allowed the cereal on condition thatGage eat it with only a little sugar. And, as usual, Gage seemed to be shampooing with it rather thanactually eating it.Ellie dissolved into giggles.“Say farts, Gage,” she said.“Farz-Gage,” Gage said, grinning through the oatmeal spread across his face. “Farz-n-shit.”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (144 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM
file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmEllie and Louis broke up. It was impossible not to.Rachel was not so amused. “That’s enough vulgar talk for one morning, I think,” she said, handingLouis his eggs.“Shit-n-farz-n-farz-n-shit,” Gage sang cheerily, and Ellie hid her giggles in her hands. Rachel’s mouthtwitched a little, and Louis thought she was looking a hundred percent better in spite of her broken rest.A lot of it was relief, Louis supposed. Gage was better and she was home.“Don’t say that, Gage,” Rachel said.“Pretty,” Gage said as a change of pace and threw up all the cereal he had eaten into his bowl.“Oh, gross-OUT!” Ellie screamed and fled the table.Louis broke up completely then. He couldn’t help it. He laughed until he was crying and cried until hewas laughing again. Rachel and Gage stared at him as if he had gone crazy.No, Louis could have told them. I’ve been crazy, but I think I’m going to be all right now. I really thinkI am.He didn’t know if it was over or not, but it felt over; perhaps that would be enough.And for a while, at least, it was.30Gage’s virus hung on for a week, then cleared up. A week later he came down with a bout of bronchitis.Ellie also caught this and then Rachel; during the period before Christmas, the three of them wentaround hacking like very old and wheezy hunting dogs. Louis didn’t catch it, and Rachel seemed to holdthis against him.The final week of classes at the university was a hectic one for Louis, Steve, Surrendra, and Charlton.There was no flu—at least not yet—but plenty of bronchitis and several cases of mononucleosis andwalking pneumonia. Two days before classes broke for Christmas, six moaning, drunken fraternity boyswere brought in by their concerned friends. There were a few moments of confusion gruesomelyreminiscent of the Pascow affair. All six of the damned fools had crammed onto one medium-lengthtoboggan (the sixth had actually been sitting on the shoulders of the tail man, from what Louis couldpiece together) and had set off to ride the toboggan down the hill above the steam plant. Hilarious.Except that after gaining a lot of speed, the toboggan had wandered off course and struck one of theCivil War cannons. The score was two broken arms, a broken wrist, a total of seven broken ribs, aconcussion, plus contusions far too numerous to count. Only the boy riding on the shoulders of the tailfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm(145 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM
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