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COLD RAIN PELTED WILL IN THE HEAD THE raindrops were fat, and the downpour had doubled in strength in the short time since he’d been lifted out of the school The crane had swung hiround He could hardly see a thing in the heavy rain The harness pinched his skin Thunder cracked Wind whipped across his wet body and Will shivered

His mind was on Lucy What would happen to her? What was Gates doing to her right at that ? Was he riding through the halls with her corpse laid over thebehind? Jesus He should have waited, he should have stayed in McKinley another day, at least another few hours Even though his otten another chance to get out, and he h the torrential downpour, he could barelylowered into a fenced-in area, on the lawn next to the school Barbed wire ran along the top of the tall chain-link fences The only thing inside the fenced-in area was an Airstream trailer It looked like an aluminum Twinkie His descent ended as his sneakers sank into the et the harness off The wind surged again, blowing the rain sideways for a second The harness rose back into the sky He watched it go until he couldn’t see it anyhts on in the trailer The square ith rounded corners glowed a faint orange He hugged himself and hurried over to the door The rain sprayed off of its rounded roof

He found the door unlocked He opened it cautiously and poked his head in There was no one inside, but a single la the interior arht There was a bed, a small bathroos of trail ed neatly on the kitchenette’s counter He saw a pile of books The inside of the trailer was dry and he was about to walk inside when he heard soure standing just beyond the fence Will shielded his eyes fro more than the shape of a man, but he knehat this was The second Will had realized that he was holding Sam’s disembodied head in front of Sam’s father, he knew he’d be in serious trouble when he hit the ground He was going to have to talk his way out of this before Saain

"Sam was already dead! I didn’t do it!" Will shouted to the ood to hear," the man said

Will swore he could feel his heart stop inside his chest He knew that voice Will ran toward the fence The hazy figure brought a scuba ot closer The mouthpiece stretched his lips out of shape, and his hair was bro, and his eye patch was black instead of white, but it was hih the holes of the fence to keep fro over

David was alive