The Latchkey Kids 2:
The Disappearance of Willie Gordon
“Count and the nightmare goes away.
One two three four five six.
Count and the nightmare goes away.
One two three four five six.
Count and the nightmare goes away.
One two three four five six.”
“Count and the nightmare goes away?”
Spring break is over and, still in shock from the events of the night of the fire; the kids are forced back into everyday life as if nothing happened. But it did happen. And it is happening again.
While the kids try to come to terms with what happened the night of the fire at the abandoned factory, nothing in their lives seems to have changed when everything feels like it did.
A broken home, illness, crushes, bullying, depression, absent parents, suicidal thoughts, they all continue as before.
Amber Shaw returns to school and the Mean Team is broken up, but will it last?
Everything is back to normal. Right?
And then Willie Gordon vanishes.
While new jealousies burn, problems kept secret are revealed and Joshua joins the group after his sister committed suicide, the group feels they are the only ones who can find Willie. Nobody believes them the monsters are real.
The kids have to face the monsters again, in the basements where they nest.
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The place that stole their innocence and almost took their lives has a name now, for Kylie, anyway. She never knew or cared about its name before. Somehow now it’s important. LaMondain’s Old Wares Factory. It is an odd name and that seems fitting.
Kylie is sitting on her bed with the door closed. She has been holed up in her bedroom for days. Ever since the night things went crazy at the old abandoned factory.
She is doing nothing. Not reading. Not even thinking. At least, she’s trying not to think.
The window is a physical presence in the room. She refuses to look at it.
The urge to look out is an annoying pull that won’t leave her alone. It is unsettling, but she refuses to let herself acknowledge that.
“It’s just a window,” she thinks. “It doesn’t matter one way or another if you look out it.”
She feels the need to look out. To see what is going on in the world outside her room.
“Kylie, you are so dumb,” she mutters and lies down, turning her back to the window defiantly.
“There is nothing to look at out there anyway.”
She sighs. Boredom is making her antsy and her frayed nerves are making her anxious. The window is making her crazy.
Kylie sighs again. It is a rough sound of exasperation and defeat.
She swings her legs around, sitting up, and slouching. She looks moodily at the window.
“Fine.” Getting up, she moves the few steps to the window in her small bedroom.
Kylie pulls the curtain back and stares at her own reflection in the glass against the dark backdrop of night.
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