3rd Chapter: THE BLUE

Chapter 3

I walked steadily across to my Aunt’s pink house, I always wondered about that house when I came to visit I always thought it looked really weird. I thought about Toodles , “Toodles!” I called, he came running up to me and started walking with me.  How could this have happened? I thought. What did she leave for? I turned around and went back to my house. I went into my room and looked around and then I saw something, a yellow piece of paper stuck to my door, it read: Kayla, I need to leave, there will be a man at our house saying I have died. It is not true; I have only gone out of the country to find your father. The reason the man is saying I am dead is because this is top secret

The rest of the letter was cut off, I stood there frozen. My mom wasn’t dead! She was finding dad! But still she was gone and I was alone. Toodles jumped up on me, he gave me an idea. I had to call Lilly.

She had given me her phone number, she said to call her in the morning before school, and it was still morning and before school. I dialed her number, a man answered the phone. “Hello?” said a gruff voice, “Oh hello” I said, “Is Lilly Dell there?” there was a pause then the voice came back on, “I’m sorry but, you must have the wrong number.” “Oh” I said, “I’m sorry I bothered you.” and then I hung up.

I went into my mom’s office and took out the phone book; I looked up Dell, “Larry Dell, Sally Dell, and Lilly Dell!” There it was but that was the number that I had called… that’s weird. “Excuse me aren’t you supposed to be at your Aunt’s house?” said the man in the suit, “I’m sorry but this is my HOUSE!!!” I screamed, “AND I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE IN MY OWN HOUSE!!!” The man looked down at me and said, “You do not have a right to be in this house, it belongs to your mother.” I looked at him and said, “WHO IS NOT DEAD!! YOU LIAR!!” I ran out the door with the phone book in my hand and Toodles in the other.

I had ran all the way to school, what can I do now? If I told the teachers they would think I was crazy. Running into school with Pajamas on, a phone book and a dog, I searched the Campus, trying to find someone that I knew. Then I saw Lilly, she just got off the school bus, looking worried. I looked around, I didn’t dare look at the sky, looking for a possibility to run to her and run back. I set Toodles down and the phone book too. I ran as fast as I could to her. I stopped in front of her, she stared at me, “Come on!” I said. She ran towards me, and we ran into the woods around the school.

“What the heck?” she said, looking around. Then I told her everything that happened. Her eyes started getting larger with every single word I said. When I was done she said, “Wait your dad is missing and your mom is doing something secret and everyone thinks she’s dead?” “Yep.” I said. She stared, “What?” I said, “My dad is missing and my mom went missing today!”  She said. I couldn’t believe it, maybe our parents were like working or something, and I told Lilly that. “Maybe!” she said. “Maybe we had to be together to find our dads or something.” I said, “Yeah.” She said.

“Hey I called you this morning and a guy answered and said I had the wrong number.” I said, “Oh uh… I wonder… why he said that…”said Lilly. I wondered if she was hiding something from me, but I just put it aside. “Well we have to get some questions answered first and what did your dad do?” I asked, “Oh he was a scientist, he studied the sky.” She said. “That’s what my dad did too!” I said. “Well I have to tell you something about what I’ve been seeing in the sky, but first I have to get dressed and we have to get some questions answered.” I said. And we started walking away together.

When we got to the gate that led to my house, we opened it and there was an eight-foot tall spider guarding the entrance. All the color from Lilly’s face was gone.