Things Not Seen Chapter 22 Summary

Calls Fifty-Nine and Sixty

  • When Bobby gets home, he goes straight to work and starts making phone calls on his mom's cell phone.
  • Of course, the first fifty-eight calls reap very little information. There are certainly no invisible people around.
  • But then he makes the fifty-ninth call and the man on the other end says that the blanket belonged to his daughter Sheila, and that Sheila just up and disappeared one day. That immediately gets Bobby's attention.
  • Sheila isn't dead or anything, though, because even though her parents haven't seen her in three years, they've received an email for her. Bobby asks for the email address.
  • He immediately calls Alicia on the phone to tell her about this woman Sheila who just disappeared without a trace. He wants to know what to say to the woman, but he also wants to know why Alicia was so strange on the way home from Sears.
  • She tells him that for the first time, she felt like she could actually do something with her life, and it was both scary and exciting for her to realize that she did have opportunities and choices to make.
  • Bobby tells her that he's going to call the woman tomorrow, and that he's just happy that Alicia was there with him.