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She pulled a chair near the bed and sat down She drank diet soda and ate candy while she watched him sleep
The worst was over The fantasy had been burned away, and he had plunged completely into cold reality
But she did not knohat the after She had never known him without his delusions, and she didn’t knohat he would be like when he had none She didn’t know if he would be a more optimistic man-or a darker one She didn’t know if he would still have the saree of superhuman powers that he’d had before He had summoned those powers from within himself only because he had needed the to his precarious sanity; perhaps, now, he would be only as gifted as he had been before his parents had died-able to levitate a pie pan, flip a coin with hismore Worst of all, she didn’t know if he would still love her
By dinnertiot e She would end up as pluet control of herself He was still asleep at ten o’clock Eleven Midnight
She considered waking hi to be born from his old life into a new one A caterpillar needed time to turn itself into a butterfly That was her hope, anyway
So, Holly fell asleep in her chair She did not dream
He woke her
She looked up into his beautiful eyes, which were not cold in the diht of the towel-draped la over her chair, shaking her gently "Holly, co off sleep, she sat up "Go where?" "Scranton, Pennsylvania"
"Why?" Grabbing up one of her uneaten candy bars, peeling off the wrapper, biting into it, he said, "Tomorrow afternoon, three-thirty, a reckless schoolbus driver is going to try to beat a train at a crossing
Twenty-six kids are going to die if we’re not there first"
Rising fro, not just a part of it?" "Of course," he said around a s, Holly I’ht back at hi, Holly," he said enthusiastically
"Superdown a job newspaper when he could’ve been doing good?" In a voice that cracked with relief and with love for hiave her a chocolaty kiss "The world hasn’t seen anything yet kid
Of course, you’re going to have to learn s But you’re gonna be good at it, I know you" She threw her ared him fiercely, with unadulterated joy