King, Stephen - Lisey's Story by King Stephen

Author:King, Stephen [King, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-29T20:24:22+00:00

I know, because by then I was doing fractions.

In school?

No, Lisey. He said this in a tone that said more, that said she should know better.

Sparky Landon had never been that kind of Daddy. Me n Paul, we ’us home-schooled.

Daddy called public school the Donkey Corral.

But Paul’s cuts that day—the day you jumped from the bench—they were bad? Not just nicks?

A long pause while he watched the smoke rise and stack and disappear, leaving only its trail of sweetish-bitter fragrance behind. At last, flat: Daddy cut deep.

To that dry certainty there seemed no possible reply, so she had kept silent.

And then he’d said: Anyway, that’s not what you want to ask. Ask what you want, Lisey.

Go ahead, I’ll tell you. But you have to ask.

She either couldn’t remember what had come next or wasn’t ready to, but now she remembered how they had left their refuge under the yum-yum tree. He had taken her in his arms beneath that white umbrella and they had been outside in the snow an instant later. And now, crawling on her hands and knees toward the overturned cedar box, memory

( insanity)

fell through

( with a soft shirring sound)

and Lisey finally allowed her mind to believe what her second heart, her secret hidden heart, had known all along. For a moment they had been neither under the yum-yum tree nor out in the snow but in another place. It had been warm and filled with hazy red light.

It had been filled with the sound of distant calling birds and tropical smells. Some of these she knew—frangipani, jasmine, bougainvillea, mimosa, the moist breathing earth upon which they knelt like the lovers they most surely were—but the sweetest ones were unknown to her and she ached for their names. She remembered opening her mouth to speak, and Scott putting the side of his hand

( hush)

to her mouth. She remembered thinking how strange it was that they should be dressed for winter in such a tropical place, and she saw he was afraid. Then they had been outside in the snow. That crazy downpouring October snow.

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