New Boy

Nothing in the Project seemed to work. Doors didn't open. Windows didn't shut. Even some of the grownups were broken. They just sat on the steps and stared and didn't work.

Then the New Boy moved in.

The first time that Mary and Georgie and Joanna and Freddie saw the New Boy, he was sitting on the steps doing nothing, like the grownups.

Freddie asked, "Gosh, Mary, is he broken, too?"

"I don't know," answered Mary. "I've never seen a broken kid before. I thought only grownups got broken. Georgie, go take a closer look."

So Georgie crept up close to the New Boy. But the New Boy didn't say a word, didn't even turn his head.

Then Georgie turned and ran, and they all ran to their favorite hiding place, behind the old black car with no windows.

"Did he see you?" asked Mary.

"No," answered Georgie.

"Then why did you run, silly?"

"Because he couldn't see me," answered Georgie.

"What?" asked Mary.

"I think he's blind," said Georgie.

None of them, not even Mary, had ever seen a blind boy before.

"If he can't see us, why are we hiding?" asked Freddie.

They all laughed. But none of them stood up and stepped out. There was something scary about a blind boy.

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