Why would he spy on Grant and Bob?

Grant and Bob are twins.

Bob got married and then got divorced and his ex-wife is named Heaven and sometimes she comes over and brings him meat loaf which I know because one time she left it on the porch when he wasn’t home and Delilah’s poodle got into it and Bob happened to pull up in his truck right when the dog was wolfing it down and he started yelling, “You stupid dog. Get away from my meat loaf.”

I was watching from my window and I saw the whole thing. He yelled that and then he kicked the dog so hard it made my stomach turn.

And that was right when Delilah came out looking for the dog and so there was a huge fight and Delilah was crying and Chip came out and was getting Bob to calm down and once he did calm down he said he was sorry.

“I’m sorry,” he was telling Chip. He looked over at Delilah, who was sobbing on a bench holding the dog. “I am sorry. But I hardly ever get my meat loaf.”

And Delilah yelled, her face a red balloon. “YOU CAN GET MEAT LOAF ANY OLD TIME BUT CAN YOU GET A PRECIOUS RUTHANNE? CAN YOU REPLACE A RUTHANNE?”

Ruthanne is Delilah’s poodle, which she loves very much. I had never in my life ever heard Delilah yell at anyone.

And Bob said, “You can’t get this meat loaf any old place. This is the best meat loaf in the state.”

And I knew it was the one from his ex, Heaven.

So Bob lived there, and he was the mean one, and so did Grant who was his brother who never got married and was more of the dopey one. Both of them own three electronics shops and are super rich.

Dad told us so. “Those two are filthy rich,” he said once.

But I didn’t think they’d be rich because Grant wore horrible stretched-out T-shirts with big old sweat rings and jeans with holes all the time, and Bob wore these tight golf shirts that showed his fat rolls and sometimes he wore a tie with the shirt which looked really weird.

And one time Grant fell asleep while he was under his truck trying to fix it and Bob thought he’d been murdered so he called the cops and there was a search party organized because everyone in the park, even if they hate each other sometimes, they also love each other.

And me and Mom, we put Berkeley to bed and Dad stayed home, and then the two of us walked along the river trail with a flashlight looking for dead bodies.

Grant’s dead body.

We held hands and she said, “If you see anything, squeeze my hand.”

“Why can’t I just tell you?” I asked.

“Nah,” she said. “I’ve heard sometimes when you see a dead body it takes your breath away. You can’t say a word.”

I smiled. I liked that my mom would tell me things like that. That she treated me like an adult. She used to say all the time that I was her best friend.

I was glad she let me go look for dead bodies with her.

We didn’t find a thing.

Nobody did.

And it was very sad.

Then the next day, when people were all out eating bagels provided by Bob as a thank-you for searching for his dead brother and saying how tragic it was; Sydney Gunnerson said he probably got drunk and fell into the river; and Randy, who was very close friends with Bob and Grant because they played poker sometimes, he was crying and saying he should have watched out for him better; and then Delilah said he probably was floating around all puffy in the lake right now. When everyone was out talking like that, Grant just rolled out from under the truck and walked right into his trailer and drank a beer.

We all watched him through the window.

Inside their house are posters of girls and lots of antlers and a life-size statue of Princess Leia.

That was Bob and Grant’s trailer and that’s who Bart was trying to see, which made no sense.