CHAPTER 20
So I already told you how it was the American’s fault about me going to The Nightmare and all, but it was also on account of the police and how they’ve all got eyes on the back of their heads. I didn’t even know what that phrase meant until Pastor explained, and that was back when I first moved in with him and Miss Sandy. I woke up from one of them bad dreams I sometimes get, and I was afraid to go back to sleep and dream the whole thing over again, so I sneaked out of bed and tiptoed into the kitchen and got a bowl of cereal and took it to my room even though I knowed it was against the rules to eat in there. Miss Sandy came in a few minutes later asking what I was doing, and I didn’t know her well enough then to understand she was surprised, not angry. So I tried acting like
