![]() ![]() It rose and fell with the waves and that changed the colors, made them swirl and blend. It came with an oily, frightening speed, and as it did, Randy saw the colors Rachel had seen-fantastic reds and yellows and blues spiraling across an ebony surface like limp plastic' or dark, lithe Naugahyde. Randy was not sure it was happening, but he thought maybe it was. A little scared? For the first time tonight, for the first time this month, this year, maybe for the first time in his whole life? Now there was an awesome thought-Deke loses his fear-cherry. "So? A caretaker-" Deke was sounding a little pissed now, a little off-balance. We turned off Route 41, we came up eight miles of back road-" LaVerne had tried to move next to Deke, but he pushed her away-gently but firmly enough. After the first ten minutes, Randy could hear the brisk, intermittent clickety-click of his teeth. It was maybe fifty degrees and all three of them were in their underwear. ![]() "Let it eat fish." Fifteen minutes passed. We're hardly in the middle of the Australian Outback, are we, Randy?" Randy said nothing. "If we have to spend the night out here, we do. "Shut your pie-hole," Deke said absently, and Randy laughed in spite of himself-no matter how many times Deke said that, it always slew him. He had also succeeded in scaring himself. "Next month, yeah," Randy said, and shut his mouth with a snap. ![]()
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