Here he comes now

I'm sorry

"There's a lady is sick!" The other boy blurts. "Dying!"

The Ray house is the only one still standing on Caryton hill when Vic and her girls come screaming up it in their old Jeep Cherokee.

Anton Pike had stale Wheaties for breakfast, and then he was hit by a bus, and then he died, and none of those was the worst thing to happen to him that day. The worst was the girl in the bear hat and her lucky numbers; but that is getting ahead of things.