Part Three: Section Six: Chapter 6 Summary

Paige gets ready to go outside so that she can ambush Alfie when he arrives, and Marty makes one more attempt to change her mind by offering to leave the cabin himself and lure Alfie somewhere away from them. Paige won't hear of it. She knows that Alfie would only come looking for them anyway. She takes the Mossberg and hides behind a granite outcropping. She stretches out on her stomach and waits, cold seeping in through her jeans. Just as she starts worrying about how long she might be out there, a Jeep station wagon that looks like the one Marty's parents have pulls in. The station wagon goes by Paige so fast that she has no time to react. She watches the Jeep as it hits the steps and climbs the front porch...