The Night Listener Page #4

Since when did you know

so many peopIe?

Hey, most of my friends were your friends.

I wanted new friends.

What's the probIem here?

I don't understand what's happening.

When I moved in with you,

I was bareIy out of coIIege.

I wanted to take care of you.

And you don't think

I wanted to take care of you?

- I'm not saying that.

- That's what you think.

GabrieI, for eight years I was gonna die.

And now it Iooks Iike I'm not going to,

and I want to see what that feeIs Iike.

Look. I just.. .

If you had any guts,

you'd end this.

That's not how I feeI.

- No, no, no.

- Come here. Come here, pIease.

(knock on door)

Comin' out.

OK?

Yeah. I'm OK.

( Gabriel) You've reached Gabriel and

Jess. Please leave a message at the tone.

It's Donna.

I'm at the hospitaI.

He's in the oxygen tank.

It's not Iooking very good.

I don't think

he'll make it through the night.

I'll call you back when there's new s. Bye.

(female machine voice)

End of message.

Ah.

Don't you think she'd have caIIed

if anything happened?

I've just got this gut feeIing.

- So caII the hospitaI.

- I don't know which one he's in.

Do you think it's possibIe

they're being a IittIe meIodramatic?

You know, the abusive parents,

the basement. It aII seems so over the top.

- Some peopIe have shitty Iives.

- They're not shitty aII the time.

(electronic hum)

They may be rewing it up a bit.

(phone ringing)

I can't beIieve you'd even suggest

that a dying chiId wouId embeIIish it.

- HeIIo?

- It's Donna.

Hi.

Donna, I'm gonna put you

on speaker phone. Jess is here.

- Hi. Jess. It's nice to meet the real thing.

- It's nice to meet you, too.

Gabriel. the Bactrim's kicked in.

Pete's better this morning.

Thank God.

- He wants to say heIIo.

- Sure. Put him on.

-(Pete) Hey. dude.

- Hey, kiddo. How you feeIin'?

- Better than yesterday.

- Great.

Hey, Jess is here.

He's fixing my fuse box.

I don't even wanna know

What that means.

OK. Well. they want me

to go to sleep now . You guys stay cool.

- SIeep tight, dude.

-( dial tone)

What a reIief.

Yeah.

What?

I think it's the same voice, babe.

What?

Yeah. Pete and Donna. I.. .

I don't know,

they.. . they have the same voice.

One is higher-pitched, but they're.. .

Are you saying

it's some kind of impersonation?

Yeah, more or Iess.

- Why wouId someone do that?

- I don't know.

- Dozens of peopIe know them.

- Who?

Doctors. There's a nurse

who comes and stays at the house.

You've onIy been toId that.

- What about Ashe?

- Did he ever actuaIIy go to Wisconsin?

He must have.

What about the photo?

That couId be anybody.

- There's ways to prove this.

- Hey.

I'm happy to be wrong.

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