i threw the car into reverse until it spun onto the street , pushed the gear shifter into drive , and sped to the east , where the road curved into vela street , the street i used to run down after school , the street where liz and i walked home from the saint hildegard chapel , the street that turned sharply right and became a narrow potholed road that forked into riverview cemetery and also into a private road that led straight to the heights .