Long-Lost Sister
- That night, Bobby is tormented by dreams in which Alicia has been kidnapped and Bobby has to rescue her. He discovers that his mom and dad are in prison in the dream, which makes him feel sick.
- In the shower, he almost yells downstairs for his mom to bring him a towel, but stops when he realizes that his mom is talking to the social worker downstairs. Uh-oh—that's not good at all.
- Bobby's mom is getting pretty fresh with the social worker. When he comes downstairs, the social worker is gone and Bobby's mom seems on edge, so he doesn't mention what he heard.
- After his mom leaves, he finally calls Sheila Borden and lays it all out on the table: He's telling her that he woke up one day and he was just gone.
- She hangs up on him, and he calls back and leaves a message about how he didn't mean to make her mad, and that what he meant by "gone" was that he couldn't see herself anymore.
- That's when she picks up the phone again and tells him that the exact same thing happened to her. She woke up one day and just like that… she was invisible. But how did Bobby know to find her?
- He reveals that he found her through the thing about the electric blanket, and she's blown away by how simple and silly it is. Then Sheila tells him her whole story, and about how she never told her parents what happened and eventually just took their money and left.
- She ran away to Florida, signed a lease online, and moved in. Now she works as a website designer, meaning that she will never have to go out to go to work. She wears a full burka when she goes outside and no one pays attention. Sheila admits that she lives a pretty solitary life—no family, no friends, no boyfriend. She doesn't even have a pet.
- Sheila tells him not to tell anyone else about her. She doesn't trust people, because she thought that she could tell some people and ended up having to move twice in the last three years.
- Talking to Sheila makes Bobby feel less alone, but it also terrifies him. After all, she's been this way for three years now, which means it's not a temporary condition. He might be this way forever.