and before i can answer - or even think of an answer - there is the terrible scream of rubber kissing off concrete and christine lunges out at me , her grille snarling like an open mouth full of chrome teeth , her headlights glaring - i screamed myself awake in the dead darkness of two in the morning , the sound of my own voice scaring me , the hurried , running thud of bare feet coming down the hall scaring me even worse .