People say that small towns are comfortable sweet, safe and cozy. I couldn't say that for Brightville, Colorado. You have to find specific maps to even spot it, the most notable thing about our town is the tourist shop in the middle of the woods, but everyone knows Mr. and Mrs. K are downright insane.
You have two options to hang out with your friends in this place, you either go to the lake, or attempt to watch a movie if you can even get the streaming service to work properly.
Needless to say, I absolutely hate this town. You may be thinking to yourself "Is this a typical coming-of-age-story where the main character wants nothing but to run away to college and run from his responsibilities?" Let me say, I WISH that was my deal, but this is far from that.
The first time someone went missing in Brightville was December 2017, the town was absolute chaos, the police force was on top of it, nothing like this ever happened here and people wanted to know why it occurred now. I was only 14 and just getting used to being a high school student. The victim was a 18 year old girl, the older sister of one of my classmates, Kim. I remember the school held a pep-rally sort of thing where they told us how to stay safe by teaching us the buddy-system or telling us not to get into stranger's cars. This was the same year that I met Case.
Case was a new student who moved from Florida after his parents divorced, we met in our Sophomore English class where the teacher hated his guts. Case was a goofball and always found a way to disrupt the class, but managed to slip out of detention. I was the type to be a little bit of a stick-in-the-mud as you might say. I believed that the more Case ditched detention the more he would get in trouble when the staff finally found out, even though I didn't like it, I wasn't the type to tattle or snitch.
It can be easy to see the simple things in your life and take it for granted. Life was easy but I wanted more, I saw the problems in our town and wanted to try to fix it, that is how I got stuck with dealing with a cult who wanted to sacrifice me to a crazy chick in a flower crown.
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Clues
Mystery / ThrillerIn the cozy town of Brightville, things aren't always so positive. When teenagers start going missing on the regular, locals start to wonder if there is anything more to the stories.
