Phoebe Winterbottom.

Someone has been leaving mysterious messages on her doorstep; her mother mysteriously vanishes, and she lives next to the creepy Mrs. Cadaver and the blind old lady, Mrs. Partridge. Phoebe is certain Mrs. Cadaver is an ax murderer who has buried her husband in the back yard.

Phoebe talks too much
worries too much, isn't considerate enough, is too particular, but really spices up a story by imagining all kinds of horrors like lunatics.

There, in the town of Euclid, Ohio, Sal becomes friends with