if they had gone to beverly 's room on the fifth floor , they would have seen the message-light on her phone blinking ; the tv-watching desk clerk would have given her a message to call her friend kay in chicago ( after kay 's third frantic call , he had finally remembered to post the message ) , things might have taken a different course : the five of them might not have been fugitives from the derry police when that day 's light finally broke .