Chapter 5 Summary

They moved in the next day. They didn't have much to move, but Patty said they'd make do with their things and the stuff Earl had left behind. Nin's crib was still at Van's, so Patty made a bed for her out of a bureau drawer that she lined with soft blankets. Jamie slept on a mattress in the back room and Patty slept in a recliner chair. He thought he could close the bureau drawer if he ever had to hide Nin. He wished there was a drawer big enough for him to hide in.

Jamie was bugging Patty to take him to the Groveton Christmas Carnival and Fair but she said they couldn't go because they were poor. But when Friday rolled around, she changed her mind and decided to go. Jamie talked Patty into not taking Nin—they'd have...