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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmChurch stood there, looking up at him. Louis drank off half the can of beer and felt it go to his headalmost at once.“You don’t even eat them, do you?” he asked. “Just killing them is enough for you.”Church strolled into the living room, apparently deciding there was going to be no food, and after amoment Louis followed it.He thought again randomly, Hey-ho, let’s go.Louis sat down in his chair and looked at Church again. The cat was reclining on the rug by the TVstand, watching Louis carefully, probably ready to run if Louis should suddenly become aggressive anddecide to put his kicking-foot in gear.Instead Louis raised his beer. “To Gage,” he said. “To my son, who might have been an artist or anOlympic swimmer or the motherfucking President of the United States. What do you say, asshole?”Church regarded him with those dull, strange eyes.Louis drank off the rest of his beer in big gulps that hurt his tender throat, arose, went to the fridge, andgot a second one.By the time Louis had finished three beers, he felt that he had some sort of equilibrium for the first timethat day. By the time he had gotten through the first six-pack, he felt that sleep might actually bepossible in another hour or so. He came back from the fridge with his eighth or ninth (he had really lostcount by then and was walking on a slant), and his eyes fell on Church; the cat was dozing—orpretending to—on the rug now. The thought came so naturally that it surely must have been there allalong, simply waiting its time to come forward from the back of his mind:When are you going to do it? When are you going to bury Gage in the annex to the Pet Sematary?And on the heels of that:Lazarus, come forth.Ellie’s sleepy, dazed voice:The teacher said if he’d just said “Come forth,” probably everybody in that graveyard would have comeout.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (201 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM