seths father had left him when he was ten , and his mother had run off with some traveling salesman a couple of years later . `` we use the little gate to open the big one ? '' like there was something crawling around underneath the stone . what happened to my other shoe ? `` okay , '' i whisper , hearing the stress in his voice . cowboy bob moves us back to may of 2001 on our first jump . there were still a few blocks to go before i reached my apartment . 