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2: Wendy
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3: Meanwhile, back at the house...
Chapter 9:
You got some 'splainin to do
Chapter 5-Part 2
Okay, Bob thought back, everything is taken care of. Wait, he needed a disguise so no one would recognize him driving the van, hmmm.. there were a hat and some sunglasses, that should work since no one should have time to scrutinize him. Now, off to the abandoned houses. As Bob pulled into the subdivision he realized that there might be one thing wrong with his plan, he had not taken into consideration the fact that it was summer and kids were out of school. There were kids playing around, and in the abandoned houses, that was illegal, but Bob was not about to call the cops. He could wait around until the kids left, but then Wendy would probably beat him home and he would have to explain the ripped carpeting and where he had been when she got home. Maybe if he drove further into the neighborhood he could find a block where no kids were. Ahh, here we go, totally deserted, and deep in the subdivision it was less likely that someone would drive by at an inopportune time. Ok, nobody around, open up the side door, get the hamper, and up to the house. Hmm..this house wasn't very run down, oh well, it would still work, open the window and toss the hamper in. You could still see the hamper from outside, probably not a problem, but better safe than sorry, Bob climbed in the window. Once inside Bob realized that something was not right. There were furnishings in the room, and he could see light in the hallway, would there be electricity in old abandoned houses? Bob didn't think so, this neighborhood would use the same electric company they did, and they got shut off if they were over two weeks late with the payment. Who would pay to keep an abandoned house electrified? Bob scooted the hamper over to the corner and went to investigate. As he reached the hall, Bob heard voices coming from further in the house, this was really strange. The voices were coming towards him. He backed into the room, and hid behind the door. Two women stepped into the hall, he could see them through the crack of the door where the hinges were. The younger woman was saying that a friend from work had invited her over for dinner. Not the kind of conversation you expected to hear in an abandoned house. As they got closer to the door Bob started to get nervous, what if they came into the room and saw him and the body? Wait, they had gone into the room on the left up ahead. Bob quickly went to the window and climbed out. When he was halfway back to the van, he realized he couldn't leave the body in an occupied house. He turned to go back to the house and was stunned, the house had gone from being in fairly good condition to a run down crumbling shack in a manner of minutes. There were even boards over the windows now. He slowly walked back to the window, he saw boards on the ground that appeared to have been pulled off of the window, he hadn't seen those when he brought the body here. He looked in the window, everything was different, except the hamper was still in the corner. The room was empty except for dust and cobwebs. What was going on? Well, Bob would just adapt, he had seen stranger things than this, maybe it had been a delusion. He would take an extra pill when he got home. Oh no, there were footprints in the dust, well, back in he went. Hmm... no way to replace dust, he would just sweep the area around them, they were going to know that someone had been here when they found the body anyway. Back outside he realized he should try to replace the boards that had been pulled down. He put two of them back by using the third as a hammer. No way to reattach the third one, but looking down the street he realized that alot of the houses had boards laying in the yards so that was okay. He got in the van and drove two streets over, made sure no one was around and got out of the van, he left the hat and sunglasses, the disguise was no longer needed. he cut through the yards to get to a "normal" subdivision he went walking in alot. Now, he just needed to walk home.
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