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Finally the lever is free I glance atIf I turn the gas off too soon, their stoves will go out and they’ll co time So many ways for people to die here, I think

My watch says 6:53 I closeonto throb Gingerly I puta stain for so trivial now I still haven’t figured out how to save Sawyer and the other three

I glance at aof a nearby house and watch the scene If Sawyer believeswill disappear But it only takes a few seconds to find out that there are still four dead from this event "Come on, Sawyer," I whisper "Believehere My phone buzzes in , I look up and al up the road in ht minutes early I shakeaway

A second later I realize the truck is going slower than the one in the vision, and its plow is engaged It hits me now--in the vision, the road is freshly plowed, and the out-of-control truck has its plow up This is not the sah of relief and mop my sweaty forehead

The plow reaches the end of the road, sweeps around, and does the other side The snow pu the top of the fire hydrant and a third of the way up the signpost If I weren’t so freaked out, I’d be aether

As soon as 6:59 hits, I take the wrench, engage it with the lever, and pull until it’s crosswise froet toit’ll take at least five

It takes me less than asoy that I don’t nor, I clias I barrel over the pile of snow left by the recent plowing and drive to Angotti’s and into their parking lot It feels eerily like what the snoill be doing in about three minutes

Then I stop the truck and just look at this crazy scene, so fa spooky All the cars are in exactly the right places, the lighting and snow are right, the tables I reserved are e is exactly as it is in the vision It’s like being in soht Zone episode But I have no more than a second to ponder it, because I’ to do with this truck

What I’d like to do is park it in the path of the sno and make a run for it, but then it’ll plow un it as it hits me to try to spin the plow I pull up into that area just to see what happens, and now there are five body bags in the vision That’s obviously not the way to go I back up and the bags nu rip the steering wheel and get no inkling, no clue froh!" I yell "Don’t do this tome any help at all I peer down the road and suck in a few breaths, trying to keep , and back up a little farther

Before I can check the vision again to see iftoward me For a second I’m paralyzed, unsure of whom this could be, because there is no scene like this in the vision Then er door opens and Trey hops into the truck "Nice hair," he says, breathing hard He sla?" I screaet out!"

"I can’t let you do this," he says "Do you knohat you’re doing?"

The vision plays brightly on the windshield like a warning, and suddenly there are five body bags again "Shit," I say "Shit! Trey, get out You’re going to die if you don’t get out of here!"

He stares at me and puts his seat belt on My watch says 7:03

"Fuck, Trey, I’ froet crushed!" I can’t scream any louder

"Just calm it down, Demarco!" he yells back, and then he softens "I can’t let you do this alone What if you’re one of the people who ends up dead? Hoould I live with that, huh, Jules? Did you think of that? Just don’t get T-boned"

I stare at hiet T-boned," I whisper And then I see it inI need to sideswipe the plow, not let it hit me full-on I whip the truck into reverse "You’re brilliant, you stupid jerk"

"I know," he says

I barrel around to the back of the lot and turn my truck to face the restaurant, parallel to the road I’ll be able to get a le into it where it jus "Okay," I say "Get into the ot this Shit, damn, hell! It’s 7:04"

There’s no time to focus on the mirror, and I can’t afford to loseplan or not, I just have to do it I suck in a deep breath and grip the wheel tighter, watching for it, rolling forward slightly to get traction