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this is the dead of night

it has nothing to do with time

it can happen in sunshine or in

moonlight in the best of weather or the

worst

for the dead of night is a state of mind

that dark unfathomed region of the human

consciousness

from which all the unknown terrors of

our lives emerge

the dead of night exists in all of us

and no one knows at what strange

unexpected moment it will make itself

known

and so tonight for your entertainment

three tales

one of mystery

one of imagination

and one

of

terror how'd you get way out here

well i'll tell you why i came one of the

fellas in town that buys aches from you

said he saw an old wreck of a car oh

that was in the barn so i figured maybe

there's something left of it you know

that i could put together well i got one

i don't think you'll think much of it

though

i'm sure i'll never know how i got to a

time and place no one else in the world

remembers

i only know it started on a sunday

morning in an old barn off the county

road

my name is frank cantrell

when it happened i was a senior at point

college in hilesburg illinois my

hometown

oh my god

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it's a jordan all right

and a playboy

jordan playboy can't believe it

how long has it been here

uh happened in 26 as i recall what

happened

this dude was racing a train out on the

county road

and he tried to beat it to the grave

crossing and he didn't make it

the engine hit the rear wheel there and

flipped her over and

killed both him and his girl

young folks too i want any older than

you are

how much

let you have it for a hundred dollars

mister you got a deal

it's none of my business but uh what do

you want it for

i'm gonna restore it

go on

make it run again

more than that i'm gonna put it back

just the way it was 1926.

well she's all yours now

and so she was

all mine

the right rear wheel and spare hopeless

wads of wires spokes and twisted rims

the body caved in

and the motor a mess

i didn't mind it a bit

i traded a winter name plate in hubcaps

plus a saxon hood to a man in fairfield

connecticut for two playboy wheels

and they arrived

rusty

with some of the spokes broken and loose

but just what i hated

and i restored that car

sanded off every scrap of paint took out

every dent and bump welded every tear

and burnished every weld

it took a long time but at last it was

done

repainted

every nickel plated part restored

re-nickeled and replaced the seats

reupholstered

everything complete to the final missing

part

a jordan radiator cap which i traded at

duesenberg floor mat

just for the fun of it

i decided to put the old license plates

back on and even had the original

ignition key in its old leather case

at least i thought it was just for the

fun of it

frank you'll get a ticket using those

old plates

i'll be okay just this once mom i'm only

going to cresswell

along the old county road the old county

road but why go that way you can get

there to creswell on the highway in less

than ten minutes

i can't go that way mom why not listen

look at this car it's exactly the way it

was in 1926. i can't drive in a

four-lane highway

heck back when this car was new that old

road was the highway

i bet it was driven there many a time

anyway

that's where it has to be and that's

where i'm gonna take it tonight

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it was grand to drive along that old

road with the top down

summer air streaming over my face and

through my hair

they're alive with the heavy fragrances

of summer darkness

i wasn't even thinking

just living and enjoying

i don't know what had happened exactly

but the first evidence of it came when i

saw those headlights moving toward me

holy mackerel a moon

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a moon roadster

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speedster

get a horse

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i've read about time with a capital t

but can't say i ever really knew what it

meant

however that night

as i left the old county road

and drove into creswell

i thought maybe i was beginning to

understand

i remembered what someone had once said

it was einstein or somebody like that

he compared time

to a winding river

with all of us in a boat drifting along

between two high banks

and we can't see the future just beyond

the next curve

or the past beyond the curves in back of

us

but it's all still there

as real as the moment around us

to which i now add my own theory that

you can't drive into the past in a

modern car

because there were no modern cars then

and you can't drive into 1926

along a four-lane super highway

but my car and i

the way i felt about it anyway

were literally rejected that night by

our own time

moving along that old road through the

summer evening

simply drifted

into the time my jordan belonged

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uh

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so

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wow

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hey

that's my car

hey just what do you think you're doing

this night

hey wait a

take it minute

one more

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vince driving like a fool as usual

it's a good thing you weren't hit young

man that vincent is the wildest driver

in the whole county

one of these days he's going to kill

himself and that girlfriend of his i

wouldn't want was that your car he took

cause

it sure looked like his

no it was mine

just parked it here a few minutes ago

then i heard the people coming out of

the theater and then he's

yes

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maybe i'll bring it back

why don't you go down to the station

house and report it

use our name if you like

we saw the whole thing

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no it's all right i'm

sure he'll bring it back thank you for

your help

afraid we didn't give you much

you changed your mind though and decide

to report it

our name is dorset

dorset

thank you

a good night young man

good night

my grandmother used to live in cresswell

i was a boy i used to visit her and play

with the boy next door when he visited

his grandparents

their name was dorset

i knew these people

but they didn't know me

of course how could they have

they wouldn't even meet me for another

40 years

and i would be 12 years old then

they would be in their 80s

there's nothing i could do about the

theft of my car

report it to the police

try to explain to them who i was and

where they could reach me

show them my driver's license with a

date on it

somehow i knew my car wasn't coming back

so all i could do was walk

and wonder what i was going to do now

here in cresswell on a summer night in

1926

30 years before i was born

i knew that i shouldn't have gone there

but i couldn't help myself

if i went up on that porch and rang the

bell

a man or a woman would answer it

and maybe a nine-year-old boy

sleeping upstairs would call down to ask

who it was

a nine-year-old boy who one day

was to become my father

but i couldn't go up on that porch and

ring that bell

i knew that

i was here by sufferance or accident

i drifted into this time but had no

right to intrude on

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wow

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okay

ah

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oh

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i'd spent the night in cresswell a

visitor from another time

and just as mysteriously and

unnoticeably as i drifted there i was

back again

back where i belonged

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i met helen mccauley when school started

up in september

she was in my economics class

a sophomore i learned

though i didn't remember seeing her

around before

which in a way

is the point of my story

hi hi grandma have a good swim oh it's

beautiful you ready for a bite to eat oh

we sure are oh

family you just dig right in there's

plenty for everybody don't worry he will

honey will you go get those sandwiches

up there say frank

allen tells me you're interested in old

cars yeah i've restored them hey you got

nothing good going for you right now

yeah i'm working an old duesenberg yeah

that sure is a good old car

yeah it is

i'll never place the one that was stolen

stolen when was that

nearly six months ago now

maybe 50 years

what

nothing

what kind was it

probably never heard of it there's an

old jordan playboy

never heard of it kid i've got one no

surprise and you thought i just brought

you over here so they could look at you

wait you've got a jordan playboy it's

not just an ordinary jordan come on it's

in the garage i'll show you

i don't say it's a running condition far

from it but it's a jordan and a playboy

and i've had it since i was 20 years old

beautiful

oh lord that's a beautiful automobile

yes it is

it surely is and i'm glad you think so

you know not many young people would

appreciate it

you know there's an old ad one of the

famous ads for the jordan playboy and

the headline reads

somewhere west of laramie

goes on to speak of this brawny graceful

thing that revels with a wandering wind

and roars like a caproni biplane

say listen frank

do you think you could get this thing

running

oh for sure i restored mine completely

well then i want you to have it it's all

yours oh no i can't it's priceless

now listen to me if you can get this car

running and looking good again all i

want is the joy of driving it just one

more time

mr mccauley what what's the original uh

paint job on this

well it used to be

a beautiful forest green

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i'm sorry i was uh

i was just picturing you driving it

around when the jordan was new

a car like this must be quite a

temptation to uh

open her up now and then now and then

all the time

oh if my parents had only known

do you know that he almost got us killed

one night

just before we were married

how foolishness

just plain foolishness

we

were racing the train we were racing it

was the thing to do in those days i

don't remember being asked we almost

beat it too

we were actually ahead of it

and then we came to the grade crossing

no gates

just the cross road going right across

the tracks

and i started to turn and in that last

instant in the very last fraction of a

second i knew we couldn't make it we

were just too late

so

i didn't turn and

we tore along the road beside that train

the engineer leaning out of his cab

shaking his fist

cussing us out for all he was working

where did that happen

just outside of town coming home from

creswell

listen

did something delay you that night i

mean just a few seconds just long enough

so that you knew you couldn't try and

cross in front of that train

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i don't know

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like what

like someone uh running out in front of

your car

and doing like this

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no frank i'm afraid not

why

i

just kind of figured that's the way it

happened

it's not important

you know i don't even remember why we

were in questionable that night

there was no question now

the license plates were identical

these are the jordan's old plates yeah

the first ones that she ever had

if you'd been killed that night helen

wouldn't be here

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frank we gotta get going huh

we we've gotta get going we're late oh

okay

i'll get a run for you mr mcauley

fix her up just the way she was

give her a second chance eh

or third

i don't believe that the jordan playboy

is anything more than metal

glass rubber and paint

formed into a machine

and yet

i can't stop myself from feeling

that when that old jordan was restored

by me

given a second chance as it were

it went back to the time and place that

would give vince mccauley and his girl a

second chance too

because someone on the july evening in

1926

had dash in front of their car

delaying them for two or three seconds i

had intruded on that time just long

enough for vince mccauley to change his

mind about trying to cross in front of

that train

live to marry the girl beside him

and eventually have a granddaughter

named helen

the girl i was one day going to marry

and just like her grandparents did

almost 50 years before

we'd leave on our honeymoon in the very

same car

this brawny graceful thing

which revels along with the wandering

wind

and roars like a caproni biplane

my beautiful jordan playboy

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hey

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so

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um

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wow

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me

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it is just a little

right through it's nothing no god no

clear

sorry i'm going to die

i will not keep superstitions

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alexis

inside

you on your way

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put it on the desk carol

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it will do its work dr gary

for my wife yes

sir

it will reassure her

that is all i can expect of it

sir

you do not believe that it will stop i

do not believe there is anything to stop

apart from a venomous insect or a rodent

sir we search madame's room

that will be all carol

yes sir

sir

marie and cook wish to be discharged

i've dissuaded them for now but

i don't know how long it will last

oh carol

inform the servants that if they do not

stop telling the townspeople what has

occurred here they will not have to seek

this charge they will be freely granted

it

yes sir

so

so

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so

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oh

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man

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michael professor i knew you would come

how can i tell you how pleased i am to

see you well what's wrong your letter

only said that alexis was not well

let us talk in the study

i imagine you were surprised to see me

answering the door well i did wonder

where carl was he's sleeping poor fellow

he's been doing the work of four all the

other servants have left

why

sit down

did you notice how empty the streets

were

yes i did where are all the people

huddling terror-stricken in their houses

i expect

i don't understand

you saw what is hanging on the windows

and the doors

michael i'm on the brink of

madness alexis is being destroyed by a

vampire

what

each day she sinks deeper

i can't deal with it

i simply can't deal with it

professor sit

sit down

please

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you've been attacked as well

i just don't know what to do anymore

i've had every inch of countryside

searched

graveyards ransacked

crypts inspected nothing

yet there is something

something which is

draining us of life

i can't see it

i can't hear it

i can't do

anything how can i save her

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god how long has she been like this

days and days retrogression has been

constant

michael

yes

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you'll be fine

just fine

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i don't understand why you didn't call

me sooner professor

but never mind

she'll be all right now tonight we'll

watch together

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um

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this will help to keep us awake

thank you

uh professor why don't you try to get

some sleep i'll watch for a while

it would do no good

once again

scarcely taste it with that stench of

garlic in the air yes

my flesh reeks of it

i do not know what will happen to this

town

until this

this creature is discovered and

destroyed

people are paralyzed with fear

i just wonder

has it been

anywhere else in the village it does not

need to go anywhere else

can find everything that it craves

within these walls

now when alexis and i are dead and it

will go elsewhere

the people know that they're waiting

what about carl

have you ever considered no no he's as

terrified as we are

he puts a cross around his neck he seals

the

windows and the door of his

of his room with garlic

indeed he has even

put one of these monsters to rest

himself

no carol will not endanger us

i've

it seems impossible that

men of science

like us

how could science affect this

this horror

science does not even believe in its

existence

if i was to get the top most men of

science into this room they would say my

friend you are deluded there is no such

thing

as a vampire

michael

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michael

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so

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so

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uh

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so

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so

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is it possible it's still in this house

the attic

the sellers oh i don't know sorry i

never thought of that sir look carol

serge it's our last chance

one more night she'll be gone

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i'll

i'll look in here

gotcha

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so

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wow

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now

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sleep well my dear

your nightmare has ended

or will it just begin

when you learn that your lover is dead

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wow

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foreign

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hmm

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hello

ella oh hi how you doing

uh

i'm fine did you just get in

yeah a couple of minutes ago

oh how was the flight it was okay

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good

alba what's wrong

well nothing is wrong nothing i'm just

i'm a little tired

you didn't call your mother did you

um no

please stop worrying about me

that's a good one

how am i supposed to do that after what

we've been through

you mean since bobby died

you know uh i'll never understand you

what is there to understand

i mean you know for the last two months

if i so much as even hinted that bobby

was gone i mean you you were just

getting all over i just wasn't ready to

accept that then

i never should have taken this trip

just stop worrying about me

not as long as you continue to keep

seeing those phony psychics and

spiritualists

do you

understand

there won't be any need for that anymore

alma call your mother please

if you don't i will

all

now you right me that you'll do it

yes

john yes

okay i'll call you tonight

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i command thee

eronomus

to do whatever i desire for thou art

conjured by the name of the everlasting

living and true god

helioram

come fulfill my desire and persist unto

the end in accordance with my will

i conjure thee by him to whom all

creatures are obedient

by the ineffable name

terror grammation

by which name the elements are

overthrown the air is shaken the sea is

turned black

fire is quenched

the earth shudders and all of the host

of things in heaven

of things in earth of things in hell do

tremble are not confounded

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prince of death

return my son who drowned by accident

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my son drowned

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by accident

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i command you

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hello

is someone there

who is there please

mommy

mommy it's me

mommy

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it's you it's really you

you're alive

oh mommy

please i'm so cold oh god i'm sorry sure

bobby

sorry

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where where were you what happened to

you dale

i

woke up and remembered who i was

left their house

i walked mile miles and miles in the

rain

whose house woodhouse where woodhouse

their name

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it's so cold

it is cold just a minute

god it is cold come on we'll get those

wet things off you

i'm gonna take care of you

my bobby

bonnie's home

i've kept your room just the way you

left i never touched it come on sit

right down here

there

now let's get that

wet sweatshirt off

okay now tell me exactly what happened

well i remember water cold water and

i couldn't breathe and

there were these people they they found

me lying on the sand and and they picked

me up

on the beach yeah

i knew you didn't drown i knew it i knew

it all along

for the longest time bobby i thought you

were dead

dead

but you're alive

you're alive

you're really alive my baby is alive

oh you're so alive bobby

you're alive

i'm so hungry

we gotta give my bobby anything bobby

so my professor's baby is home in the

morning we'll take it to dr croswell

okay

why

want to be sure you're all right

tell me about those people you said

their name was green i bring you

something

i think so

i'm going to telephone them right away

in the morning find out why they didn't

call the police

oh but they did mommy

no they didn't

well the police would afford us

us

your father and i

where is he

he's on a business trip

i can't wait for him to teleport oh boy

he's not gonna believe me

okay bobby now what would you like to

eat

i don't know

oh come on some soup

cocoa

i know

one of those sandwiches you like

which is a good idea

if i told your father when you're eating

tuna fish at this hour

how many doors in the house

what

how many doors in the house

that's a funny question

i don't know i think you know as well as

i do there's the front door right

then the garage door

and the family room door that makes

three

donnie are you sure that was always a

good boy mommy

of course you were a good boy

and did you love me

did i love you

i do love you darling from the bottom of

my mind and were you nice to me mommy

why are you asking me this question were

you nice to me

yes of course i was

why was i in the water why did those

people find me on the beach

i don't know

i guess

you were playing out on those rocks

was i allowed to do that mommy

no i told you not to he told me never to

play on the rocks

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okay

you make a suggestion and then i'll make

you whatever you'd like

i want to play a game

a game

hide and seek

you're tired why don't we get some sleep

and then in the morning i'll wake up and

we'll play every game you want all right

i want to play a game now

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it's time for bed i want you in your

room right now

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bobby where are you

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this is no time for games

bobby

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bobby stop this

i want you to come right back here

bobby

please don't do this to mommy

bobby

for the last time

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bobby

what are you doing

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aren't you glad the lights are out now

mom

that make the game more fun

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uh

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you're going to hurt yourself in the

dark

let's play hide and seek now mommy

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so

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all right this is it the game's over no

more

oh gameplay there will be mommy

bobby

stop

this

that's the way you used to talk to me

isn't it mommy

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please

you're frightening me you could

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you could have hurt me before inside

don't you realize that

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oh

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you must kill me

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mama what is it

god john

he's back

bobby's back

no no no he didn't drown some people

found him down the beach what are you

talking about he's alive

no she's alive some people found him

what are you trying to tell me he didn't

remember who he was until tonight until

tonight listen

what is it there's something

what is

i it he's losing his mind

i don't even recognize him i don't know

do you know do you know what he just did

do you know that planter at the top of

the stairs

he just pushed that down on me pushed it

down pushed it down on me

yes and now he's running around upstairs

in the dark in the dark he insists on

playing some game you just start playing

some game why are you repeating

everything i say

why i think you

oh

i fooled you didn't i

oh you're not very good at hide and seek

are you mommy

so let's switch places now

and i'll find you

okay mommy i'm starting to count

ten

nine

eight

seven

six

five

four

three

two

one

ready or not here i come

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i'm almost there

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is this where you are mommy

are you hiding in the kitchen

am i hot or cold

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oh

look what i found

a big sharp knife

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but where is mommy

i know

maybe she's in the closet

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yes that would be a good place

is a good place to hide

isn't it mommy

isn't it

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uh wait

i think i hear you upstairs

you fooled me mommy

you made me think you were downstairs

when you're upstairs all the time

well here i come

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ready or not

ah

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bobby knows you're in here mommy

he's gonna find you

shouldn't have hit him like that mommy

mommy didn't like that

so bubby's gonna punish you

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oh

what's this

just what i need

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bobby's gonna get you

bobby's gonna get you mommy

oh

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wow

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i'm coming to get you mommy

hello

fold yeah

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here

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it

guys

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you lied mommy

bobby didn't drown by accident

you knew that

bobby drowned himself

to get away from you

you see

bobby didn't want to come back

mommy

no

bobby hates you mommy

so he sent me instead

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you

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you