just finished with Christine for the night. He had replaced the radio aerial
minutes or so he had been sitting behind the wheel, listening to WDIL's
He had meant to do no more than turn the radio on and dial across once,
Pittsburgh, the sound of Blue Suede Radio.
Will said; he had a light touch, Look at Christine; Christine proved it. She
had been a hunk of junk sitting on LeBay's lawn and he had brought her back;
then she had been a hunk of junk sitting in the long-term lot out at the airport
and he had brought her back again. He had
Rave on… rave on and
tell me…
Tell me… not to be lonely
He had what?
Replaced the aerial, yes. And he had popped some of the dents, he could
remember that. But he hadn't ordered any glass (although it was all replaced),
he hadn't ordered any new seat covers (but they were all replaced, too), and
he had only looked closely under the hood once before slamming it back
down in horror at the damage they had done to Christine's mill.
But now the radiator was whole, the engine block clean and glowing, the
pistons moving free and clear. And it purred like a cat.
But there had been dreams.
He had dreamed of LeBay behind the wheel of Christine, LeBay dressed in
an Army uniform that was spotted and splotched with blue-grey patches of
graveyard mould, LeBay's flesh had sloughed and run. White, gleaming bone
poked through in places. The sockets where LeBay's eyes had once been
were empty and dark (but something was squirming in there, ah, yes,
something). And then Christine's headlights had come on and someone had
been pinned there, pinned like a bug on a white square of cardboard.
Someone familiar.
Moochie Welch?
Maybe. But as Christine suddenly rocketed forward, tires screaming, it had
seemed to Arnie that the terrified face out there on the street ran like tallow,
changing even as the Plymouth bore down on it: now it was Repperton's face,
now Sandy Galton's, now it was Will Darnell's heavy moon face.
Whoever was out there had jumped aside, but LeBay had thrown Christine
into reverse, working the gear lever with black rotting fingers—a wedding
ring hung on one, as loose as a hoop thrown over the branch of a dead tree—
and then he threw it back into drive as the figure raced for the far side of the
street. And as Christine bore down again, the head had turned, throwing a
terrified glance backward, and Arnie had seen the face of his mother… the
face of Dennis Guilder… Leigh's face, all eyes under a floating cloud of
dark-blond hair… and finally his own face, the twisted mouth forming the
words
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