They Hoped For The Best
Even though the boys admitted they weren’t convinced by what they saw, Wright also said, “You don’t want to really think of the worst in somebody like that. You don’t want that situation to be real, so you just brush it off and hope for the best.”
However, the boys’ instincts didn’t allow them to brush it off. But when they got back to the parking lot, the three people they were looking for were nowhere to be seen. It didn’t take the boys long to figure out where they went, though. If they weren’t outside, they could only have gone inside.