The Happening: The Hard Cut Page #5

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Let me go.

You guys stay right here.

That's for Clement.

He's a retriever.

You lost?

You must be. There ain't

nothing around here for miles.

Why are you eyeing my

lemon drink?

I suppose the kind thing for me

to do is to offer you supper.

I ain't going to ask you again!

I hope the meal was sufficient.

I wasn't expecting guests.

This is a beautiful place.

There's a spring house

in the back.

They used to hide people

from slave chasers back there.

It has a speaking tube running

under the ground to the main house.

You can hear each other like

you were in the same room.

So, what's with you two?

Who's chasing who?

I'm sorry?

Ain't no time two people staring

at each other, or standing still...

loving both with their

eyes are equal.

Truth is, someone is chasing someone.

That's the way we's built.

So, who's chasing?

I knew that. I knew that!

You don't touch things

that aren't yours.

- Do you have a radio, Mrs. Jones?

- No.

I got enough to fill my time

right here.

I mend my own things.

I grow my own food.

Although I ain't got the touch.

Gardens don't grow the way

they should. Never have.

How do you stay in contact

with others?

I don't.

How would you know if something

would happened, like a world event?

Mrs. Jones, um, something's

happened along the east coast.

Whatever it is that you think is so

important that you need to tell me...

don't.

Just keep it to yourself.

The world don't care about me.

I don't care about it.

I suppose I have to let

you spend the night.

Guest rooms are up, on the left.

Mind the steps.

- I'm scared, Elliot.

- It's okay.

I'm sorry about everything.

That Joey thing, I was being stupid.

You've been great,

taking care of Jess.

I don't like this woman.

There's something "exorcisty"

about her.

How could she hit Jess like that?

We need to stay in this house.

You wanted me to protect you.

This is how we have to do it.

Just deal with her.

I hear you whispering.

Planning on stealing something?

No, we're not!

Plan on murdering me

in my sleep?

What? No!

Mrs. Jones?

Mrs. Jones?

Crazy lady...

You're trying to steal my things!

No, no, Mrs. Jones. I actually

wanted to talk with you.

You are all going to leave

right now!

You don't understand.

There's something happening in a few

states. In this region, it's not safe!

Leave, now!

Mrs. Jones, can we talk

calmly for a second?

Just hear me out.

See, I'm a teacher...

Mrs. Jones?

Oh, my God!

Alma, shut the windows

and the doors!

Alma?

Alma!

Alma? Jess?

How old do you think he is?

Is he a baby? I think he's a baby.

He's so tiny!

Isn't this a cool house?

If we had this house we

could make it look so pretty.

Get him again. Get him again.

- Hey, frogie...

- Alma?

Good morning, Elliot.

It sounds like you're right here.

Close the windows and the

doors, Alma.

- Why?

- Mrs. Jones just died.

Close the windows!

Close the door, Jess!

- Is everything closed?

- Yes.

- I'm sorry, Alma.

- What's going on, Elliot?

It's happening here.

It could be the grass and the

trees that are doing this now.

She was alone when it happened.

Seems like it become more

sensitive.

It's too dangerous to go

outside, isn't it?

Yes.

This is the end, isn't it?

I wish you were here.

Me too.

Do you remember our

first date?

- You were so quiet.

- You bought me the mood ring.

It turned purple when

you wore it.

Then you said

"that means you're in love".

Got you to talk, didn't it?

But then we checked the

little paper chart...

and it turned out that it meant

that I was horny.

- You loved that.

- I had no idea.

Yours was blue.

Peaceful, right?

Right.

What color was love?

- I don't remember.

- Me neither.

- Elliot...

- Yeah?

I was just making sure

you're there.

Is not right for it to end like this.

If we are going to die,

I want to be with you.

I want to be with you,

and I'm going to come be with you.

Elliot, don't!

The event must've ended

before we went out today.

I found the hair clip!

You don't want to be late for

the first day schools are open.

Oh, wait.

I'm just going to put this

right here.

Okay?

- Are you okay?

- Yes, aunt Alma.

I love you.

I love you, too.

All right. I'll pick you up

after you done with school, okay?

Bye.

As everyone knows by now,

traces of the neurotoxin...

had been found is some

plants and trees.

Most environmentalists feel disadvantages

like the red tide in the ocean.

But instead of algea killing fish,

this happened on land.

Plants and trees just can't pick up a move

when they feel threaten like other species.

They have only one option:

to rapidly evolve their chemestry.

Kay from Mississippi wants to know

why it started so suddenly...

on a Tuesday at 8:33 and ended

so suddenly at 9:27 the next morning?

Well Kay, to be perfectly honest...

this was an act of nature

and we'll never fully understand it.

And doctor, there's been a lot of

speculation as why this happened...

in the North East only.

- How do you explain that?

- I believe, and this is just my opinion...

that this was a prelude, a warning

like the first spot of a rash.

We have become a threat

to this planet!

I don't think anybody would

argue with that!

- And this is a warning.

- A warning?

I think the skeptics would believe

that is it occurred anywhere else.

That's way most people believe

it was the Government.

If it had happened in one

other place, anywhere else...

we could all believe what

you're saying.

I should drop my bicycle off at the

apartment before I go to work.

Can you make Nadia's

party tonight?

I should drop my bicycle off at the

apartment before I go to work.

That frightened me.

- I should drop my bicycle off.

- What?

My God...

My bicycle...

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