I Found My Neighbor’s Twin Toddlers Hiding in My Empty Trash Can—Then Their Mother Told Me Why They Had Been Sent to Find Me

“Is she next door?”

Neither answered.

I let the question rest.

“Your daddy?”

Chloe shook her head.

The man I had seen in the driveway might not be their father.

The woman might not be his wife.

Everything I thought I knew about the new neighbors came from a few seconds of looking through my own assumptions.