When I leaned my head back, the balloon boy faded away, but that's not all that happened.

When he faded away, I took my bear mask off. I shouldn't have done that.

Emee was frozen, just staring off into space.

A puppet thing came and flashed into the room. It was tall, it was wearing black clothing with white stripes, and it seemed to have purple tears running down into its mouth.

I could hear Emee sob a little, so I looked at her, and I didn't see Emee anymore, I saw the puppet face up close now.

I screamed.