smelled brand new , and I wondered how much it cost . He started it up and I shut the door .
“ Where ’ s home ?” I gave him my address and tried to see if I could spot anything toxic in the air . As we drove out of the parking lot , I looked behind us in the rearview mirror and he shook his head , “ Fucking methheads .”
My eyes felt like they gained a
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hundred pounds as we drove down London Road . He talked about golf clubs , sailboats and his house in Bright ’ s Grove . I stopped listening . We were the only car on the road , every porch light was off , every sidewalk empty . The static in my brain started up again and I closed my eyes to make it go away . Maybe it was the chemical leak that was calling me to sleep , maybe it had already entered my system , made its way through my bloodstream and I was going to die , right here in this guy ’ s Ford Utility .
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