Second Chance (2012)
“He peered into the basement window where he and his uncle André had shared the foldout couch just two nights before, the night of the vanishings all over the world.
Someone appeared to be setting up housekeeping down there. Lionel saw boxes of food, piles of strange clothes, a fan, a clock, a small bedside stand. Who thought they were free to move into his house, just because the rest of his family was gone? He thought he would find people taking stuff away, not moving stuff in.
Two men about Lionel’s uncle’s age burst from the door in a trot, heading toward the van. Lionel was startled but scampered back to behind the corner of the house before they noticed him. “This is going to be great,” one of them said. “This is a good way for André to work off his debt.”
“You gonna let him stay here?”
The other laughed. “He’s the one who put us onto this place, man! ’Course he can stay here. Long as he behaves himself.”
They were both laughing now as the door slapped shut behind them.
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