How It All Goes Down
- Over the next couple of years, Bailey realizes that no one plays with Todd anymore.
- Guess everyone else grew out of the explosives-and-animal-abuse phase of childhood.
- During the summer, the family still visits the Farm.
- And on that Farm, the family has a new visitor—a girl named Hannah.
- Hannah meets Ethan while he's playing with Bailey, tossing him a handmade toy called the "flip," which is a "cross between a boomerang, a Frisbee, and a baseball" (10.18). It can break windows from many yards away.
- Mom, who came to the Farm without Dad that year, decides to go back home early.
- Grandma and Grandpa drive her home, leaving Ethan home alone with Bailey.
- That night, Ethan hears a weird noise in the house.
- Ethan opens the gun cabinet and gets ready to investigate.