Chapter 51Lilly, Pennsylvania, 2006When Grogan Salt stuck his head up out of the hole in the ground, Celeste yelped and ran right into one of the yard toilets.
She caught herself on the toilet tank before she could spill all the way over and hit the ground. "Oh my God!" Her heart was pounding like crazy, and her stomach was in the middle of its fiftieth flip-flop.
Grogan had scared the s**t out of her. When he'd failed to come to the door of the trailer, Celeste, Baron, and E.Q. had fanned out through the surrounding junkyard to look for him. Celeste hadn't expected him to pop up out of a pit, though...especially one that was covered by newspapers so she hadn't even known it was there.
For that matter, he didn't look much like his old self at first glance. It took Celeste a minute
