When a popular classmate Emily Blake suddenly goes missing, her friends areleft devastated and confused. She was one of the students with the highest GPA in school, she had a great family and everyone who knew her, at least liked her (if not loved her). There was no reason for her to just disappear.
Her family after countless missed calls and unread messages got the police involved, The police tried to figure out where she was or at least if she was alive, but every clue they went after lead to a dead end. Eventually after two weeks of searching the police gave up, saying there’s nothing they can do. Her parents hearing the news tried to even bribe the officers to continue the search, but they denied.
When her two closest friends got the news, they decided to take matters into their own hands.
Thta’s what takes us to November 10th 2010, when they started their search.
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A blonde teenage girl walked into the police station, with a boy that looked around her age. She was taller than him by a few inches and her eyes had the color of the grass in the spring. The shorter teen had auburn short hair and chestnut eyes, They both had matching bracelets on their wrists, probably some friendship piece they got at a random store in the mall.
They walked up to the reception, where an older police oficer sat and drank his coffee.
Seeing the two teenagers approaching, he straightened out and cleared his throat.,
„Good morning, is there anything I can do for you?” The older man asked with a friendly smile.
„Hello, we’d like to see the files from the Emilies Blakes case. We’re her friends Anne Maryland and Thomas James.” The girl, Anne, quickly explained. She tried to put on the most professional tone she had.
The oficer sighed at that and his brows furrowed.
„Sorry kids, the case’s closed and I can’t just give you the files. It’s the law.” He explained and in his eyes you could see the empathy he held for them.
„But can’t you make an exception for us? Please?” Thomas chimer in.
„Just because you’re kids, that doesn’t mean you get a free pass to do whatever you want.” The man replied. „The case is closed, in my opinion she probably just ran away. A lot of teens do that these days.”
The boy scoffed at him. „But she had a perfect life! Besides she could as well be dying right now and we wouldn’t even know.” He argued back.
Meanwhile the taller girl put a hand on his shoulder. „What Thomas meant to say is that he’s really unhappy with the result of the case, so we want to investigate ourselves.” She explained giving Thomas a slight glare.
„No can do kiddos. Now leave if that’s all you came here for.” The officer grumbled and nodded towards the door..
The auburn haired boy huffed and went to the exit, while the blonde girl mouthed a sorry before leaving after him.
„That’s so unfair” The boy said as soon as she went through the door.
„Look let’s just work with what we have. She was last seen going for a walk in the forest, so let’s go there.” She put a hand on Thomas’s shoulder again, trying to calm him down.
„The police already searched it, it’s no use” He crossed his arms.
„But they only searched near the paths and the entrance, so we can try the deeper parts.” She reasoned and started guiding him foward.
After a bit more of back-and-forth the boy eventually agreed. They both went to search in the forest.
„I can’t see anything! Maybe we should get back?” The boy tried.
„We will not stop until we find her, come on!” Anne shouted back and continued to walk through the dark forest.
Thomas muttered something under his nose and continued searching, when suddenly he fell down into a hole in the ground. He screamed in pain when he felt his arm twist.
„Anne!” He screamed, holding his arm. The hole was quite deep and narrow. He tried to feel around for some exit when he touched something soft and cold. He continued to trace the thing until he figured out it was someones hand. He screamed out in terror and jumped.
„Anne! There’s someones hand here!” He screamed out again and tears welled up in his eyes.
Suddenly he heard footsteps outside.
„Anne?! Is that you?! Thank God you-” He got cut off by a shot in his leg. Before he could even scream out in pain, he got another one in the head.
The next day Anne filled a missing person report with his family.
Now it was only her. She can finally rest knowing that she finished her task. She was now safe.