Summary

There is no electricity in Chance Cove after everyone else has left, but there is fresh water. Someone has cleaned out Sweetland's refrigerator and freezer, and cleaned up his kitchen after his faked death. The rest is as he left it. Even his laptop is still there, but there is no Internet. Sweetland remembers going to Jesse's Facebook page months after the boy's death. He found little but messages from island children saying they would miss him. He notices that the messages are addressed directly to Jesse, as if he can read them in the afterlife. Sweetland keeps checking Jesse's Facebook page for awhile, and then forces himself to stop.

Sweetland sits for a long time, looking out at all the abandoned buildings. When the sun sets, he tries to figure out what is so eerie about the silence in his house...