On the way back from the freezer she read the instructions on the back of the box. The house was empty now. In the toy room downstairs the toys were not put away.
In the backseat on the way to the house the boy heard them joke that the exit ramp was an actual ramp to death. The car was full. The boy sat in the middle seat.
The kids watched The Predator in the basement, lounging in the scattered toys and gym mats and Nerf guns. It was getting late and the darkness worried him.
Where he saw March of the Penguins years later with his ex-girlfriend he saw Batman Returns with his parents and baby brother. His mother's cousin's family never showed up. They were the family in the car wrecked on the side of the road outside the parking lot.