Part 1: Chapter 13

Steven breaks it to the children that he was going on another business trip and that they were going to be staying with their grandparents. 

The lighting situation has really been bothering Steven. They know that before leaving their house in the morning, that they turn all the light off, but when they get back home, all the lights are on. Steven and Lydia even go through the house in the morning making sure of it. Also, an “electrical charge” went through Steven one of the days. He was worried that something was going on with their electric. He called his father over. They heard something upstairs fall and then felt the charge go through their bodies. Steven’s father assured him that what he was feeling wasn’t electrical, but the lighting situation was a different story.

“As I turned the corner onto our street, I saw that we had again left on all the lights in the house.”

“Something odd was going on though. Every day, when we left the house for school and work, I would make sure that all of the lights were turned off. Every night we would come home to find the house blazing brightly with every light on.”

“A surge of panic ran through me as I pulled up to the house. Someone had to have been in the house since we left that morning. I ran from the car and through the front door. I checked the living room, the family room, the kitchen, my room, the boys’ room upstairs, the bathroom, the basement. Nothing.”