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Show be sorry." And since she sounded like she meant it that time I got up and mosied over to the t.v. I plopped down and turned on the set. Kelly was lying on her stomach, looking through the paper for scarey movies. "There isn't anything good on yet," she said. "But lookit here. At 7:00 Lon Chaney Jr. in "The Return of the Werewolf'." She squinted one eye and pulled her hands up into claws. "Yeeowwwwwwwww," she said. Mama clicked into the dining room and back into the living room , looking at her watch and then out the window. She wears high heeled plastic shoes with a see-through strap over the toes and clear heels and whenever she takes a step the shoe falls and then jumps again, slapping at her foot. "You two don't stay up all night watching movies and scaring yourselves to death," she said. "And watch Jeffrey. Don't let him get into trouble this time. I am holding you responsible." Just then Aunt Linda pulled up into the driveway and I could hear Jeffrey screaming out the window. He had a wooden gun and he was firing at escaped convicts. "POW POW, WATCH OUT LADY. THEY'RE HEADED TO YOUR SIDE OF THE CAR. DRIVE FAST AND WON'T NOBODY GET HURT." Mama kissed us goodnight. "I'll see you in the morning," she said and then she clickedjbut to Aunt Linda's car and left us with Jeffrey. He stood in the doorway, his feet apart, arms arched at his side. The gun was tucked into the elastic of his railroad train -3- |