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elbow.
    They both rose together, the eyeball carefully balanced out front.
    "I didn't want to see this anymore," John admitted.
    "Of course not. I should've gotten rid of it already. Sorry about that."
    John shook his head. "There's no need to be sorry. Let's just get it outside."
    "Here, let me take that." Scooter took the shovel from John's hand, then took it over to the broken window. He flung the eyeball outside.
    John watched it fly through the air. A sack of goo similar to the green stuff his children used to play with as kids. Except this wasn't a toy. It was someone's eye . An actual eyeball.
    It dropped out of sight.
    Scooter turned to look back at him. "Sorry about that," he said again. "Come sit down at the table. You should have something more to eat."
    John wasn't hungry, but maybe the young man was right. He had been through a lot today. He followed him back to the table and grabbed a few more crackers.
    Then they fell into another silence.
    It was at that time that they noticed that the creatures were no longer banging on the door.
    "Have they gone?" Julie asked.
    "I think so," John replied.
    "It doesn't sound like they're up there," Scooter added. He took a few steps toward the staircase and looked at up at the door. "I can't hear anything." He walked back to the work table.
    "I told you that door was strong," John said.
    Julie looked between John and Scooter. "What do we do now?"
    Scooter shrugged his shoulders.
    John wasn't all that sure, either. "We should probably wait," he suggested.
    "Wait? And then what?"
    "Then we can go upstairs."
    "Upstairs? Why would we go up there?" Julie couldn't keep the worry out of her voice.
    "There's more food up there."
    "But…"
    "He's right," Scooter interrupted. "We'll have to go up and get more things for us."
    "But…"
    The young man raised his hands to tell Julie to calm down. "We're not going to do it now. We'll wait a little longer. To make sure that they're gone."
    "We're never going to know if they're gone," Julie argued.
    Scooter couldn't disagree with that. They would always be at risk. But they didn't have a choice in the matter.
    "We'll be okay," he said.
    John nodded along with that.
    Though she still didn't like the sound of it, Julie didn't say anything further. She simply took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

Chapter 7
    They waited a while before they decided to go up. However, it still wasn't long enough for Julie to feel comfortable about it.
    "We haven't heard thos e thing s for a long time now," Scooter told her.
    "I know, but…" Julie bit her lower lip.
    "They're not up there anymore."
    She glanced at the staircase and wrenched her hands. "They might be."
    "They're not."
    Even John added that he thought the creatures were gone.
    She turned to the old man, but didn't say anything. It was obvious that they were determined to go.
    "You can stay down here if you want," John said, "and take care of Emily."
    Scooter nodded his head in agreement.
    Julie shook hers, even though they all knew that she'd like nothing more than that. "No, I should help you guys keep an eye out in case thos e thing s come back."
    "They're not going to come back," Scooter said.
    "You don't know that."
    "No, we don't," John agreed. "But I think we'll be okay up there. You really don't have to come."
    "Yes, I do."
    "What do we do about Emily?" Scooter asked. The little girl had been sitting on Julie's lap the whole time, though she still hadn't been paying them much attention.
    "We leave her with my wife," John said without any hesitation. "She can lie down on the mattress and wait for us to come back. I'm sure she must want to take a little nap."
    "Do you think she'll be okay?"
    " I kno w she will," John replied. "My wife hasn't moved in days. She isn't going to hurt the little girl. Even if sh e coul d move, she wouldn't hurt her. Alice loved children." He glanced at his wife and felt another pang of sadness run through him.
    "All right, then," Scooter said. He helped Emily