I told my theory to Dan. That the man is grass and mud and leaves from our backyard. That I think the reason we haven’t seen him again is because it has been so rainy outside.

He wondered why someone we knew would make a protection against us, and I honestly didn’t know but what if we had made the creature?

Maybe one of us had subconsciously called him up from the ground because we knew someone from our past had come back to make our lives miserable.

I couldn’t think of anyone but I did check online for missing person reports, there weren’t any thank god.

Then I started looking through obituaries. There was one person that I did know, I had to stare at the picture to be sure and the name was somewhat familiar to me, but what happened with this person was so long ago that I couldn’t fathom why this person would want any harm to come to me or Dan.

It was such a long time ago.

A teenage girl came to work for a restaurant I was briefly managing. She had told me when I was making the schedule that she could work every day of the week. I didn’t know how that was possible because we closed every day at 2:00 p.m. and didn’t she have school?

She scoffed and said she knew the hours that’s why she was working there. So at first I only scheduled her on Saturdays and Sundays. I didn’t believe her, she was only 16 years-old she went to school.

It didn’t matter anyway because she called out that Saturday then that Sunday. She blamed me saying I didn’t schedule her for the hours she wanted to work. So I scheduled her on more days of the week.

Can you guess what happened? She called in every day.

So then she called the owner. He took away scheduling from me and he started making the schedule.

She did the same thing to him so she was taken off the schedule. The owner told her to come back when she was ready to work.

It was all her fault but she blamed me, said that I wouldn’t listen to her scheduling needs. That she had to go to school during the week and I wouldn’t schedule her on weekends etc., etc.

Now there she was starting up at me from the obits, wide smile. She was 35 when she died. I wondered how and if I could find out if she had all her body parts with her when she died.