October 1
Jeanne giggled; he didn’t know the word for ‘handwriting’ yet, it looked like. “Okay, so what happened?”
“I got a lecture about accusing Deacon of things he didn’t do,” Gene wrote, “before he said that I got lucky.”
“Lucky? That doesn’t sound good.”
“It’s weird,” Gene replied. “He said that Deacon didn’t know anything about yesterday, but he did know about today.”
“Yeah,” Jeanne typed. “Rob was supposed to be here today. What did Deacon know?”
“Well, that’s where things get weird.” Gene frowned again. “I told him that we knew Rob was coming to school today, and when he wasn’t there, we got worried. But Mr. Lorentz said Rob had an excuse from his dad today.”
“From his dad? They probably mean that his dad knows he’s missing,” Jeanne wrote.
Gene shook his head. “No, he showed me the note and everything,” he replied. “And then what Deacon said made things weirder.”
“Oh?”
“Deacon told Mr. Lorentz that he saw Rob getting into a silver car,” Gene wrote. “It looked kind of like Katherine’s or Ben’s, but shorter and older-looking. Not, you know round like Chloe’s car.”
“It wasn’t nearly as cool as Chloe’s car, I bet,” Jeanne wrote. “But silver? And old?”
“We’ve seen a car like that before,” Gene wrote.
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