luke pushed away from the counter and came at me . he brushed up against me as i opened the door . she kept asking over and over , looking at me with big , worried eyes . a single surprised laugh popped from wes 's throat . i walked on the streets where he walked alone before , sat on the banks where we spent time together . that boys got it coming ... and the quarters ? the best proof of the hypothesis was that rose had seen nothing at all . 