Pesky, Kevin: Wait a Second, Who is that?
Corey had gone completely silent, his own eyes now registering a sense of near panic. His face looked pale.
Penelope on the other hand, was fielding the questions by looking at Kevin and then Pesky. Each time she moved her head, the trailing, permed hair thrashed about.
"Bradford....I don't know. Someone broke into his house maybe. That's what they told me when I asked." She said looking at Kevin, even though Pesky had asked the question. It had been Pesky that asked the question, hadn't it? She stared at the house, not saying anything for a moment. "My Mom won't tell me what happened." She said. Then she shrugged. "The other kids don't know because no one really comes outside to play anymore."
Then as if waking up from her own fog, she said to Pesky "No, it's nothing like that. At least I don't think so. No one is getting taken from their homes. It's more that they're just kind of disappearing. I mean, not like you think, even though that's what's happening. A lot of kids started disappearing and then, on top of that, other kids started to move because their parents sold the homes to get out of the neighborhood. And so that's like double the kids that are disappearing. But the second group disappears the normal way."
Penelope turned to Kevin.
"Ralph shouldn't even be here. I didn't see him until all the sudden he was living at Shawn's house. And I don't know why Shawn's parents let him live there. The kid is like, at least five years younger than Shawn. Then all of the sudden Ralph is Shawn's brother and he's always lived at Shawn's house."
"Then all of the sudden Ralph isn't just living in his own house, he's living with his own Mom. And that Mom didn't always live in the neighborhood. And she didn't move into the neighborhood. A different family lived there. Then all of the sudden it's Ralph's house and his Mom and him had always lived there and Ralph had never lived at Shawn's house. None of it makes sense, and everyone is just going along with it like it always was that way."
"Bradford? Bradford looks like some nerdy kid with big glasses. He's another one who just 'always lived here.' But until recently, no one had ever seen him. Sometimes he walks around with a puppet. Like, what do you call those people on stages that work with Puppets and make it so the Puppet talks but they don't?"
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