" Okay, Jason, we'll see you in a bit. Please hurry!"The phone chimed softly as the call ended.Jason shoved the phone into his jacket. He took a few d...ep breaths and forced life back into his aching legs.Richie came barreling down the street in his mad rush to put his mother and the Darkness behind him. He covered half the distance to the Sovert household before he finally spotted the car idling in front of the walk and the figures walking towards it.Richie tried to stop, but his bike skidded. ”“Bruh! What the fuck, why you gotta bring that up again?” Daniel looked outraged. “That was like, five fuckin’ years ago! It’s like the fuckin’ stone age!”“Hey, if it’s like the stone age to you, it was probably more like yesterday for him since he’s so old now,” said Will. “That’s why I figured you’d call Ange first.”His greasy-haired friend gave him a look. “Nah, I wasn’t gonna seriously call him. What’s he gonna do, call up Floyd or one-a his other fuckin’ idiot friends and let ‘em try to. Kami reminded me to use oven mitts, which I hadn’t. After getting two of them, I pulled it out of the oven, and it smelled terrific.“What just dinged?” mom asked, coming into the room“We were hungry, and we cooked a pizza. Is that a problem, Mom?” Kami remarked.“No, I guess dinner will be just your father and me. Did you watch all of your movies yet?”“No, we still have CINDERELLA to watch,” Kami answered. “We’ll take the pizza into the TV room, if that’s OK with you?”“Go ahead, your father. Last but not least, she put copies of the video tape and audio tape into her purse. Then she slipped on a light green cardigan and she was ready. Her plan was this: She was going to make Dorothy Kaiser a proposition: Share Steve with her. If she seemed reluctant–Steve really was a find!–she’d back it up with a little feminine charm of her own. (For some reason, she suspected that Dorothy might be susceptible to that approach.) And if that still did not work, she’d produce the videotape and.