It was a dark and stormy night. I was walking home from visiting my moms. It had just rained, and I had forgotten to bring a sweater! I hate the rain so much!
I walked for a little more until I noticed something weird. Something I couldn’t possibly ignore.
I noticed that I was walking down the same street that my best friend lived on!
A thought crossed my mind as my eyes widened. I totally forgot! Destiny asked me to stop by at her house on my way home from my moms!
How could I have forgotten!
Destiny White, my best friend and the best person anyone could ever meet!
She is the sweetest, most caring soul in the entire world.
I looked around more, noticing that it was getting dark and that I needed to get home before Dad got angry at me for being late.
I walked again as something caught my eye. In the corner of my eye was an image of Destiny’s house. She has a big house, so it was hard to miss! Even if you were trying to miss it most people can’t stop them self’s from catching a glimpse.
I often told her how jealous I was whenever I came over to visit. Sometimes I was jealous because of how rich her parents are. But other days it’s mostly because her parents didn’t get a divorce like mine. Her parents have good jobs that earn them lots of money and their relationships with each other are the strongest I have ever seen from a family.
Destiny’s mom works most nights as a nurse and her father is a police officer. They work late shifts so Destiny asks me to come over a lot.
I slowly walked off the sidewalk and across the road. Destiny’s house was right in front of me.
I walked up the driveway and up the steps to the front door.
I stared at the brown door as I took a deep breath. I slowly put my hand up to the door and knocked slowly.
(Knock)
(Knock)
(Knock)
I waited a few minutes no response. I waited for a little while I attempted to take a glance through the living room window.
I sighed as I noticed they had shut the window and covered by a red curtain. I found it strange how Destiny didn’t answer. She had just told me before I left my house to come by on my way home. Why wasn’t she answering?
What else could they be doing? I thought.
She said earlier that her parents wouldn’t be home because of work and that if I came over it wouldn’t be a problem.
I sighed once again as I made my way down the steps and slowly down the driveway. I didn’t have my phone on me so calling her wouldn’t make a difference.
I’ll just have to talk to her tomorrow at school.
I took one more glance at the front door before turning around and reach for my iPod in the front pocket of my jacket. I carefully took out my white headphones I got for Christmas and slowly placed one into my left ear.
My eyes widened as I could hear an ear-shattering scream. I turned around, pulling my headphone out of my ear in shock as I traced the scream back to Destiny’s house.
(Scream)
What had I heard!
‘’Destiny’’!’’ I shouted as I ran across the street and up her driveway. I put my hand up to the door and knocked. I honestly didn’t care how much noise I was making! Destiny is more important than a little noise!
‘’Open the door!’’ I shouted
‘’Are you all right?!’’
I waited a little until the door slowly creaked open. To my surprise, it was Claw.
His eyes were wide, he was breathing quickly, and it looked like the right side of his face was bruised. Did someone hurt him?
‘’What are you doing here?’’ He asked his voice filled with fear and anger.
I stared at him for a second, then grabbed his shoulders in panic.
‘’What happened!’’ I shouted as I shook him violently.
‘’What are you talking about Hunter!’’ He shouted at me, as I pulled my hands off of him.
‘’Nothing happened!’’
‘’Why are you here?’’ He asked again, ignoring my question,
‘’I was just walking home from visiting my mom when I hear a screaming noise come from the house!’’
‘’Where’s Destiny!’’ I shouted, my breathing quickened as my heart rate increased.
‘’Take a breath Hunter! Me and Destiny were just watching a horror movie while we wait for our parents to return home! ‘’
‘’That’s all!’’ He said as his breathing calmed.
‘’What happened to your face!’’ I asked, placing a hand on the right side of his face. He clenched his teeth as pain filled in face. could tell that my touch had hurt him.
‘’It was an accident.’’
‘’Just please leave.’’ He said calmly as the door slowly closed.
‘’I’m sorry,’’ I whispered as the door closed the rest of the way. I stood there frozen as the cold wind blew through my purple hair.
‘’I thought something was wrong,’’
I watched as Claw waved goodbye as the door closed behind him. I stood there for a few seconds as I took a deep breath.
Something isn’t right here! I thought as I reached back into the jacket pocket, pulling out the iPod and the pair of white headphones. But what do I do though?
Something isn’t right here! But I will look silly if I call the police and Claw’s story checks out. Dad wouldn’t be happy if I returned home with two police offers asking to talk to him. He’d never let me out again If I did that.
I need to tell myself that what he said is true, and that everything is fine.
I slipped the headphones both into my ears as I played The Phoenix’ By Fall Out Boy.
The sound of the music completely drew out any noise.
Who would have ever guessed that something more than just a horror movie was going on in that house?
I made it safely home that night. Nothing else happened.
I expected to get a phone call from Destiny in the morning. I hoped she would call to tell me how sorry she was about last night, but no call! not even from Claw or her parents.
I hoped that if she hadn’t called that, I could talk to her at school, but when I asked around everyone gave me the same response. ‘’Sorry haven’t seen her’’ It was the same thing from everyone I asked.
I wanted so badly to call her myself but after being late coming home last night, Dad refused to let me have my phone until we sat down and had a little ’’chat’’
The worry was practically eating me up the entire time I was in school, How was I supposed to focus on school when Destiny might could be hurt somewhere!?
I run out of school as soon as the bell rang. I hurried as fast as I could to Destiny. I thought everything would be all right when I got there but to my surprise I had been wrong. So horribly wrong.
what I saw will haunt me forever.
There was a bunch of police officers, police cars and neighbors standing around her house. There were police crime tape covered around some smaller buildings, and a few officers carrying what seemed to be ‘’evidence.’’
I slowly made my way over to one officer. He had short brown hair, light blue eyes, and a blue police officer uniform. On the side of his uniform appeared to be a yellow police badge, showing people he was really with the police.
The officer was kind enough to take a few minutes to speak. It started with small talk. ‘’Like what kind of relationship did you and Destiny have?’’ ‘’Did she seem angry or sad when you last talked to her?’’
‘’Did she say anything about running away?’’
Those questions really didn’t seem to help me sort this out! It kind of angered me that the office refused to answer any of the questions I asked, for he wasn’t able to present that information unless I was family!
I am practically family! I wanted to burst out and shout, but for some strange reason I decided to just holding my tongue.
I waited for the officer to stop speaking, and was about to walk away when a horrifying sentence came out of his mouth, tieing its self around my neck and pulling me back before I left the officers sight.
I slowly turned myself around and studied the officer, missing what it was he had said. An awkward smile appeared on my pale white face as I kindly asked him to repeat what it was he had said.
He blinked a few times then sighed. ‘’If you’d like.’’ He replied softly. ‘’Destiny White is missing.’’
To be continued
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