Toad Road Page #4

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Start to become shadows.

They move around you.

You close your eyes

and they're still there.

And in the moment of

all this confusion,

for just a second, you

might see someone you know.

Nodding, telling

you to turn back.

As you pass through

the fourth gate of Hell,

everything around

you begins to die.

As you move forward,

the leaves start to fall,

the clouds blacken,

the trees cave in.

It gets cold; So cold.

But even as everything around

you freezes and becomes still,

you feel warm, powerful,

ready to keep marching through.

Sara!

Sara!

Sara!

When you pass through

the fifth gate,

time beings to change.

With every step forward...

memory falls to the wayside.

There is no past, no

present, no future.

And if you're not focussed, if

you don't know exactly where

you want to be, you

can get lost in there.

And that for anyone who fails

to keep moving forward,

is a completely

different level of Hell.

Scott!

F***.

All right dude, well

we got to talk.

People are looking for you.

Cops have been

looking for you like...

What?

Is she OK? Where

the hell is she?

She f***in' took the bikes.

I have to go to

f***ing Whitleigh's

which is f***ing humiliating.

Try and find her? Everybody's

been trying to find her.

She f***ed up my keys so I can't

get into our f***ing apartment.

We don't have an

apartment any more!

F*** you! We don't have

an apartment any more.

There's no apartment

now thanks to you.

You got thrown out of the

apartment in a day?!

In a day? It's been way f***ing

longer than a day, James.

You seriously have been

gone all that time

and you don't know what

the f*** is going on?

What the f***, Jamie!

You need to find

some where to go.

Your dad thinks you just ran

off and you're a junkie now.

Like you probably

can't stay with him.

Is she OK?

I don't know, Jamie!

I don't know.

I'm like starting to freak

out a little bit, all right.

You can't stay with me.

Fine. I'm not asking.

I don't give a sh*t, Jamie.

Then where are you going to go?

I... Goddammit. Whatever.

Fine. Take me...

Take you?

Just take me wherever the

f*** you're staying at now.

Where do I live, man?

Like where's my sh*t?

Where do I sleep?

Dude, like, people

were looking for you.

You need a cigarette?

I... Yeah man.

I know you haven't

already, but like you

can not tell anybody

about me being here.

The cops are f***ing

looking for me like I gotta,

I need to like f***ing go!

Like I need to hide!

Not long after you left, like

everything fell apart.

Everybody moved home.

Whitleigh got her own place.

Scott moved home.

No one knows where

the f*** Sara's at.

No one knows where

you've been at.

Like everyone who's been

here has moved home.

Like everybody's moved on, dude.

Sh*t's fallen apart

since you left.

You have no idea.

I've got an uncle who can maybe

let me crash for a little while.

I warned you. I told you the

place was a dump.

- It's fine, man.

- All right.

I ain't gonna lock you in, but

lock it up when you leave.

- Yeah.

- All right.

Yeah, as I said, it's

pretty empty up here.

It's not empty, but it's close.

Yeah.

Just don't do anything stupid

like burn it down.

Try not to break any

more of these

windows that aren't

already broken.

You got f***in' bugs

and stuff in here?

Plenty of bees.

Just keep killin' 'em.

Eventually, they'll stop.

We'll cover 'em up

some way later.

After like twelve or

one o'clock... Hey.

There's an outhouse

over there you can use.

Or if you just gotta

piss, just go around

the side of the

building of something.

All right?

- OK.

- All right.

Come on, buddy.

You and I we go on one

week, two week,

drink and not remember

a goddamn thing,

but months man,

months have passed.

I don't know where the

f*** your head's at.

Somebody like you or I

go missing, James

nobody turns there

f***ing head.

Somebody like Sara;

That's a good, good,

young girl right there.

You know, she doesn't live

the life you and I live.

She's got people

looking for her.

Her parents, probably

her f***ing church.

Jesus Christ, man, how do you

expect to not, not expect people

to raise their eyebrows at

you? And go "Huh?"

Even as far as I'm concerned,

man, you're f***in' up

because you're running.

- Shut up. Shut up.

- No man, it's the truth.

The world's a big place,

man. You can run

as far as the eye can see,

but your problems

don't go away.

You gotta give me

something here, James.

Thanks for the beer.

Thanks for nothing.

Don't f***in' look at me.

Seriously, they could jump

the sh*t out of this fence.

They could just f***

you the hell up.

All you can do is

pretend that you're dead.

Really nothing. You can't

do sh*t about it.

Even that little one.

Those two are little. They

would still f*** you up.

That little ass horse. He still

will beat the sh*t out of you.

I missed.

One handed? Get the

f*** out of here.

Don't hit anything on your first

shot. Make me feel stupid.

Oh! Good shot.

Is that the one you

were aiming at?

Did I hit one?

Yes. This one's yours.

This one's mine.

Keep me updated.

James,

you've already talked to one

guy about this thing here.

We checked out your

information from before,

and we're still having

problems coming up

with a right answer. Something

that's gonna tell us where Sara is.

I've talked to your friends.

OK?

You know what happened to her.

You were there.

You're the last one to see her.

OK. You are the key to

this whole entire thing.

You're telling' me about

hands reaching' up.

That feeling that hands are

reaching up and pulling you down

while you're going on

this road. OK?

It's a legend.

What are you seeing?!

Tell me what you're seeing?!

She's missing! What

are you seeing?!

Something isn't real, dude,

I... Nothing happened.

Something happened.

There's no phone

calls, but then again,

there's no phone calls

for you either.

So where have you been

during this time frame?

The Jones' are out there

looking for their daughter.

You're the only one who can

tell me that sort of thing. OK?

Six months we've been

going after this.

All right?

They also told me she did a 180

degree change when she met you.

Straight A student.

We found your stuff out there.

That's what started

this thing off.

And you're telling me you

woke up out there.

We didn't find you out there!

I don't know if she's dead

or alive. I don't know!

But you're the last

person who does!

And I can't get that from you.

I can't understand why

you don't want to help.

You're free to go.

But also, remember, this

thing ain't going away.

What you're telling' me and in

essence, is absolutely nothing.

I don't know what happened...

You're a f***in' piece of sh*t!

He didn't even hit

you in the face.

Ow!

Put it out on your,

on his nipple!

Ow!

Hey, punch me as hard

as you can right here.

He wants to get knocked out.

Right here.

Take ten steps back

and f***ing charge.

Oh!

Put your head down.

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