i just wanted to know what he was going to say . just before the company gets here . '' i could hear vee laughing behind me . want to be my friend , too ? the men said he had been stabbed in the shoulders and gut but was alive . `` the official story was that dad got a better job somewhere else , but we knew that was n't true because they did n't even act like they knew where we were going . is this the way that everyone ends up after death ? 