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Thomas was still in his closet hiding.   Mr. Riddle cleans up the arms and the legs, and he removes the fingers and toes and disregards them in this large metal canister that held in the death smells.

Once he was done, he throws Frank's clothes into the fire of coal.  Mr. Riddle placed the fresh meat into the oven for dinner.  Then he walked to Thomas room.  He didn't see when the boys were messing with Thomas, but he somehow knew that Thomas was the kid Frank was chasing.

He knocks on Thomas's bedroom door.  "Thomas, are you in there?" he asked as he knocked again.  It took Thomas a while to open the door. "Yes sir, did you call me?" he asked as he opened the door.  "What have you been up to?  Did you make any friends?" he asked with a smile.  "No, sir, they just wanted to kick my ass that's all they wanted," he explained.  "Sorry about that son but not everyone is friendly.  At least, you tried.  Let's give it two days and you can go try to make friends again." he explained  "Do I really have to?  Making friends hurt." he said  "If you want to keep your grandmother happy, you must make some friends, at least three a week." he explained  This really confused Thomas, for what he just said didn't make any sense to him.  Mr. Riddle knew what he was talking about.

"Boy you must be hungry, come with me, I'll fix you something to eat," he said as he leads Thomas to the kitchen.   There he gave him a glass of milk, a piece of cornbread and a drumstick.  When Thomas saw that drumstick, he began to wonder what did he do to deserve this.  He didn't ask any question and ate his food.

Now, as he was eating his food, a white glowing ball began to bounce around.   The ball bounced on Mr. Riddle head for a while   Thomas kept looking at the ball of light.  "Boy, you know it's rude to stare." he said with a smile  "I'm sorry about that.  Did you see that?" he asked as he stares at the ball of light over Mr. Riddle's head.  "See what boy?  What now you seeing things, great! Look finish eating your food, then you can go to your room and rest until the sun is down." he said  "What?" asked Thomas  "Just rest until I go get you." he said as he continues to cook Mrs. Haddy dinner.

Thomas finished and got up from the table ready to go to his room.  He spotted two bottles of wine, so he thought.  "Mr. Riddle, grandmom really likes her wine.  I noticed that she drink two to three bottles a day.' he said  "Thomas, what did I tell you about asking questions?" he said,  "I didn't ask a question." Thomas replied.   "What Mrs. Haddy drinks or eats is no of your business, go to your room, and let me finish here." Mr. Riddle said as he shoved Thomas out of the kitchen.

As he walked through the hall walls, the bouncing ball of light appeared again.  "Shit, I'm must be losing my mind.  Mr. Riddle didn't see the ball," he whispered as he followed it upstairs to the hallway.   The ball of light bounced against the one wall and then disappeared into a portrait.  Thomas quickly ran up to the picture.  To his surprise when he looked close to the picture, he saw the little girl, but this time she was standing near a young boy that looked like the boy that was chasing him.  Thomas' heart began to beat fast.  He quickly moved away,  but return to take a closer look.  

Then the little boy far away in the picture suddenly became a close-up.  Frank's face was the whole picture now, with no back round.  "I should have kicked you harder.  You set me up to die." said Frank's spirit as he talked, Thomas freak, "What?  What happen to you?" he asked "You know damn well what happened to me.  You set me up to get eaten." said the boy's spirit. as it leaves the picture and boops Thomas on the forehead, as it giggles and bounces his way back into the picture.   The little girl in the picture was also laughing.  "Sorry about that, but you did get him killed," she said as she patted Frank on the back trying to calm him and keep him in the picture.

"Thomas, go to your room, we must talk later, it's almost six, Mrs. Haddy should be waking up soon," said Destiny as he walks back into the back of the picture returning to her normal position.