"It's made of soft wood with a crepe interior. Uh, now, I.. I don't know what your budget is, but over here, we.. we have copper and bronze." The guy said to us, as he led us to them. I looked to my right and saw Nancy looking at us through the door frame. I shoved Jonathan's arm to get his attention. He looked over and saw her. I looked at Jonathan and then at the guy.
"Could you just.. give us a second?" I asked the guy quietly. He nodded.
"Of course." He responded as Jonathan and I walked over to Nancy at the door.
"Hey." Jonathan said, sounding a little confused.
"Hey, Nancy." I greeted her kindly.
"Hey." She said responding to both of us. "Your mom, um.. she said you guys would be here." She paused for a second, looking at both of us. "I just.." She paused again and sighed. "Could we talk for a second?" She asked us. We both nodded and walked outside of the room. We found some chairs to sit in to talk. She asked about this thing on the ripped up photo with Barbara in it. I know nothing about cameras, so I just listened.
"It looks like it could be some kind of perspective distortion, but I wasn't using the wide angle. I don't know." He said as he handed back the photo. "It's weird." Nancy just looked down at the photo.
"And you're sure you didn't see anyone else out there?" She asked Jonathan.
"No, and she was there one second and then, um.. gone. I figured she bolted."
"The cops think that she ran away." She said, now talking to both of us. "They don't know Barb. And I went back to Steve's.. and I thought I.. saw something." I furrowed my eyebrows. "Some.. weird man or.. I don't know what it was." She said as she looked at both of us. "I'm sorry. I.. I shouldn't have come here today. I'm.. I'm so sorry." She said as she stood up and started to walk out.
"What'd he look like?" I asked Nancy. She looked back at me confused.
"What?" She replied.
"The man you saw in the woods. He doesn't have a face, does he?" I asked her. She looked at me surprised.
"How did you know that?" She asked us as we told her about how he came through the wall at our house. So Jonathan had an idea to go to his red photo rood to enlarge this thing in the photo. We all left the casket shop to go. Soon, we arrived at our destination. He led us to the dark room. He walked over to this thing and started to go to work.
"And you're.." I asked him as I watched.
"Brightening. Enlarging." He answered.
"Did your mom say anything else?" Nancy asked us. "Like, um, um where it might have gone to, or.."
"No, just that it came out of the wall." He told her as the machine dinged. He grabbed the empty picture and sat it in a thing of water and sloshed it around.
"How long does this take?" Nancy asked him.
"Not long." He responded. They continued their conversation as I zoned them out.
I'm thrown back into reality when Nancy said something.
"That's it." She said as we all looked at the picture appearing. I could make out that it was something weird. "That's what I saw."
"Our mom.. I thought she was crazy, 'cause she said.. that's not Will's body. That he's alive." Jonathan said to her.
"And if he's alive."
"Then Barbara is alive." I interrupted her. We stood there examining the photo. We decided to plan everything tomorrow at the end of the funeral. A little after, we dropped off Nancy at her house and said our goodbyes for the night, and headed home.
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