Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim 3) - Page 303
“I don’t know.”
“You made it Upstairs and that’s where you belong. I’m where I belong.”
She crosses her arms.
“How do I know this isn’t you conning me? Trying to be all noble. I don’t need you noble.”
She takes a step toward me. I take one back.
I say, “You don’t need me at all. Remember that last dream? All those times we talked. They were more than dreams, weren’t they?”
“Yes. I didn’t plan them. They seemed to happen when I slept too. Upstairs they told me it wasn’t all that uncommon for people who died in a violent and unsettled state. You’re still tied to a person or place like a ghost. Those dreams were me kind of haunting you.”
“That’s funny. It always felt like I was calling you.”
“Maybe it was fifty-fifty.”
“I’m just glad it wasn’t all me. I felt pretty pathetic when I thought it was.”
I pick up a rag from the workbench and wipe Mason’s blood off the armor. She doesn’t need that to be her last image of me.
I say, “But that last dream was different, wasn’t it?”
"Yeah.”
“We both knew it, but you were the one with balls enough to say it. It’s time to let go.”
“We can’t go on haunting each other forever. Actually we could, but what kind of life is that?”
I toss the rag on the bench and walk over to her.
“You really like your friend, Candy?” she asks.
“I really do.”
“Is she going to wait for you?”
I shrug.
“Who knows? I’ll wait for her and the rest will go however it goes.”
“What happens now? We just say so long and never see each other again?”
“No.”
I want to talk but my jaw doesn’t want to move. I have to concentrate to get the words out.
“I’ve been ducking something ever since I first got out of here. I didn’t think I could stand to hear it but things will never be right between us unless I say it.”
My Kissi arm throbs. I rub it but the pain doesn’t let up.
“How did you die? How did Parker kill you?”
She starts to say something, shakes her head and starts again.
“All this time I thought you knew.”
She looks at me.
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